Current Events > 'Insane' Heat Has Been Scorching Miami. It's Not Even June.

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The hottest May on record for the city has experts worried about the summer and hurricane season to come.

Meteorologists in Miami, it is fair to say, are accustomed to drama: sunny-day flooding, severe rainstorms, strong hurricanes.
So it is telling and scary that they seem at a loss for words to describe the extreme heat that the city experienced over the past few days, a full month ahead of summer.
Its completely crazy, what just happened, Brian McNoldy, a senior research scientist at the University of Miami, said.

Its insane, said John Morales, a meteorologist for ClimaData, a private weather forecasting and consulting firm, and a hurricane specialist at WTVJ-TV, the NBC station in Miami. Not only is it insane, it is also dangerous.

They were talking about the heat index, a measure of how hot it really feels outside, taking into account humidity along with temperature. The heat indexreached 112 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday, breaking the previous daily record by an astonishing 11 degrees.

Sundays high of 96 degrees was also record-breaking, Mr. McNoldy said. Saturdays high of 94 was one degree shy of that days record. All of this in May, normally a sufferable month in Miami compared with the three or four that follow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/us/miami-heat-summer-weather.html

People worried about this are "radical green zealots", as governor DeSantis said last week.

It's been mid 80s in Michigan and it's only May. July and August are probably going to be like weeks long heatwaves in the upper 90s.

Meanwhile, the weather here in Los Angeles has been rather fair by comparison.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7e0b0401.jpg

I sometimes wonder in the near future. When Climate Change gets much worse. If there's going to be mass migration of Americans heading to areas of the country that still get decent weather. Like the Pacific Northwest where I live. Where in the spring time, we're still getting cool temps with rain here and there. While large parts of the country are already enduring heat waves and droughts this early in the year.

Florida rn:
https://youtu.be/wl2JnXjwWBM?si=dMPiGXOvJ1eEGE34

Kurt_Russel posted...

Florida rn:
https://youtu.be/wl2JnXjwWBM?si=dMPiGXOvJ1eEGE34

LOL this always cracks me up

Just a reminder to everyone that one of the more tinfoil-ish conspiracy theories out there is that heatwaves like these are caused by the gubmit weather control beam, to trick us into thinking Global Warming is real, so we'll accept a global dictatorship/socialism/the NWO/neo-feudalism/etc.

Yes, they actually throw a middleman into there when weather just looks "too suspicious/convenient" to be handwaved with "it's just random weather patterns" or "earth isn't getting hotter, the sun is" ass pulls.

It's clear DeSantis has never been to Miami. The streets literally flood when the water gets choppy.

Humble_Novice posted...

Meanwhile, the weather here in Los Angeles has been rather fair by comparison.

It's been pretty cool in Portland after we had an abnormally hot (high 70's to mid 80's) May opening.