Miami is going to feel the heat for a 10-day stretch. How steamy will it get?
Memorial Day in Miami is generally hot. So, Mother Nature is giving us a 10-day dry run to prepare.
Better get your bodies acclimated and hydrated because South Florida is looking at a run of highs in the low-90s Friday through the coming week. There’s little chance of rain to cool us down. And the “feels-like” temperatures that could yield heat stroke and heat exhaustion could hit the triple digits.
“The combination of high heat and humidity could make it feel more like 100 degrees in some areas,” said CBS News Miami meteorologist Lissette Gonzalez in her Friday forecast when it already hit 84 by 10 a.m. and was forecast to hit 90.
At this point, the National Weather Service in Miami has not issued heat advisories.
Heat advisory and excessive heat warning advisories are issued in Miami-Dade and Broward counties when heat index figures, the combination of dew point and temperature, are forecast to reach a certain number and maintain that high for at least two hours.
Heat advisory triggers at 105 or higher. Excessive heat warning triggers at 110 or higher.
A week of high temperatures
Here is CBS Miami’s temperature forecast for the week. National Weather Service has lower highs in the upper-80s and higher lows around 80 for the period.
▪ Saturday and Sunday: 91 high, 77 low.
▪ Monday: 92, 77.
▪ Tuesday-Wednesday: 92, 78.
▪ Thursday: 91, 79.
There’s minimal rain chances, with the best chance Wednesday night at 20% and Thursday at 30%.
Looking ahead, Weather Underground lists a high of 88 on the Saturday and Sunday preceding Memorial Day, May 26, with lows of 77 and 78, respectively. Expect mostly sunny skies.
