Miami just felt like 100 degrees, but the air is changing. When can we expect the chill?
People in Miami may feel like they’ve jumped from the sauna into a cold plunge given the changes in the weather set to come to South Florida this weekend.
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No, we’re not suddenly becoming extreme athletes. And the change in temperatures isn’t going to be sudden.
“This isn’t going to be like Oklahoma cold where it’s the 80s and it’s 40 degrees an hour later. It’s going to be kind of gradual,” said National Weather Service in Miami Meteorologist Nick Carr.
“We’ve already had the first shot of cooler air that is actually in the area right now and it’ll be cooler than yesterday. But the coldest air is behind a second cold front, which does happen, and kind of late tomorrow,” Carr said Friday morning.
When does the real cold hit South Florida?
The coldest temperatures will be Sunday morning, around 6 a.m. or so, Carr said.
The lows will be in the mid- to upper 50s Sunday morning in Miami-Dade and Broward, Carr said. Key West will be about 10 degrees warmer — mid-60s — according to the weather service.
The highs as the sunny skies warm up in the afternoon will be the lowest on Sunday, too — around the mid-70s.
What if you’re going out to dinner Friday or Saturday night and want to do the Miami thing and dine al fresco on, say, Giralda Avenue in Coral Gables or on Ocean Drive in South Beach?
After all, did you fold and put away your sweaters in storage this week as temperatures soared into the 90s? According to weather expert Brian McNoldy, Miami broiled under two consecutive record-breaking days with a heat index over 100 degrees — what you really felt like. “That has never happened before so early in the year,” the senior research associate at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School said on social media.
“It depends on how South Florida your blood is,” Carr teased about the coming chill. “I guess the way to describe it is it’ll get down by Saturday night into the upper 60s, by like 8 p.m. But nothing crazy. The 50s, where you might actually need a jacket without being cold, is Sunday morning.”
Friday night in Miami might also call for sweaters, or maybe leave the shorts at home. The upper 60s are also expected.
“Saturday morning will also be like the low 60s,” Carr said. “This coming morning will be a little chillier than what we’ve seen in the last few nights.” On Thursday “it was like 78 so it’ll be 16 degrees colder than that most likely.”
This story was originally published April 8, 2022 at 11:32 AM.
