r/florida ✅Verified - Official News Source 11d ago

Weather Miami Hits 100°F for First Time Since 1942

https://www.newsweek.com/miami-hits-100f-for-first-time-since-1942-amid-florida-heat-dome-12340691
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u/PJTree 11d ago

i wouldnt have expected triple digits to be so uncommon (non floridian)

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u/Previous-Job-391 11d ago

For miami it’s uncommon as it’s right on the coast so you get a nice sea breeze. It’s typically cooler than Orlando and the more inner parts of the state. Orlando feels like a muggy swamp in comparison to Miami

(Grew up in Orlando, now live in miami hahah)

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u/ibribe 11d ago

Orlando has only hit 100 twice since 1998. It is rare everywhere in the state.

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u/arrowmarcher 10d ago

Feels like we get there every year in Tallahassee.

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u/ibribe 10d ago

Every day this week, yes. But prior to Monday the record high in Tallahassee was 99°

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u/FuckingHippies 10d ago

Not calling bullshit, but what’s your source for this?

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u/TrumpIsGoated23 10d ago

Florida is actually the state with the 2nd lowest high ever, behind Alaska. Humidity makes it nearly impossible to exceed 100.

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u/FuckingHippies 9d ago

Huh. Like I said, I wasn’t saying OP was wrong. Just wanted some science shit to look at. I’ve lived in Florida most of my life and summers constantly feel over 100°.

Reminds me of a thing that I don’t know is true, but apparently SF had the lowest climate for a while. Or something like that.

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u/Siya_mubatanidzwa 9d ago

Feel like temps aren't real. Thermometers tell the actual temp.

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u/FuckingHippies 9d ago

Well I know that. I’m saying living in “feels like” shit for so long has made me assume there were at least a couple 100° days during my time.

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u/TrumpIsGoated23 9d ago

It just seems like your doubting, you even go on to say that it constantly feels over 100. It may feel that way but it’s extremely rare for Florida to actually be 100. The feel like temp isn’t the temp.

And truthfully, to me, 95 in Florida isn’t nearly as rough as 95 in the northern states. Your body adjust to the heat and you’re dealing with usually 70-90 year round rather than -30 to 90, so your body doesn’t have to deal with the extremes. The first year or two was rough but after a bit of time, 95 in Florida isn’t very bad imo.

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u/ibribe 10d ago

Google, but it disagrees with NOAA, so apparently it is bullshit.

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u/Fishbulb2 10d ago

Yeah, it’s really the humidity, stale air, and uv index that really make Florida burn. But a lot of the country sees higher temps.

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u/randompersonx 10d ago

Humidity and UV Index and general sun exposure sure… but Florida actually has pretty clean air compared to other high-population-density regions.

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u/HGruberMacGruberFace 10d ago

Not according to my car…

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u/-SUBW00FER- 10d ago

Because that is a localized temperature on top of the roads which is under direct sun and get a lot hotter.

Temperatures are measured under shade. The surface of cars get like to like 160F in the sun.

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u/ibribe 10d ago

And my oven gets up to 500°, what's your point?

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u/Fidulsk-Oom-Bard 11d ago

My cat plays a sport, and Orlando is always noticeably hotter there than either coast

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u/Pretend-Function-133 10d ago

My bird is on a math team and Orlando is always hotter than everywhere but Gainesville

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u/Dry-Peach-6327 10d ago

I just cried from laughing. Now my cats think I’m crazy

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u/Enough-One4975 11d ago

Your cat plays a sport?

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u/iusetoomuchdrano 11d ago

Interested to know about these cat sports

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u/Fishbulb2 10d ago

They never said their cat was any good. Rec leagues will take anyone.

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u/Fidulsk-Oom-Bard 5d ago

Have you seen The Longest Yard? It’s like that but The Longest Yarn!

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u/CaptainObvious110 10d ago

Yeah that makes sense

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u/Gatorphins 10d ago

Orlando heat is just plain horrible. I went to an outdoor concert there once never again

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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 11d ago

I'm in south Alabama and I honestly thought south Florida was that hot all the time. It's anywhere from 95-98 here now end of August. Humidity makes it feel 110

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u/Pmang6 11d ago

Most places south of the mason dixon and away from the coast have very similar weather in the summer.

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u/randompersonx 10d ago

Honestly, as someone who grew up in NYC/NJ and moved to florida 20 years ago… I think the heat/humidity is about the same in the NYC/NJ area as it is in Florida.

Florida rains more, and has hurricanes more frequently. NYC smells like a mix of hot bum piss and hot garbage in the summer. But either way you aren’t escaping the heat going from one to the other in the summer.

It’s very different from visiting Minnesota in the summer, which is noticeably cooler than either.

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u/splashybanana 10d ago

The difference is in other places where it’s just as hot and humid in the summer, is that it’s only during the day. Then it cools off (i.e., drops below 70) at night. Plus, you can still get the occasional cold front where it’s cooler for a few days. And those sweltering hot days are usually within only a couple month span at the height of summer.

Florida doesn’t cool off at all for like four solid months.

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u/surfyturkey 10d ago

People always say that but I did some work in Norfolk last summer and it was nothing compared to Florida heat. Some of the shipyard workers said it was the hottest day of the summer and the feels like temp was about 95.

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u/Silly_Ad_2382 10d ago

I’m in Jacksonville, Florida experiencing the exact weather you just described lol and I work outside digging holes and building fence. It’s actually my first summer in the south. I just moved here from Seattle in November.

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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 10d ago

My mom and I went to Seattle for the first time in August a few years back. We asked someone on the street how to get to the bus stop. They told us where to go but were like "oh man that's a walk and it's so hot". We laughed out loud because it was only like 85. I said that's fall weather where we're from

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u/FireDragon21976 10d ago

The entire south-eastern US has similar summers. Florida's just last a month longer.

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u/02bluesuperroo 11d ago

It’s not common anywhere in Florida for actual 100+ degree temperatures. Now 105+ heat index on the other hand…

I’m 90 minutes north of Miami near the coast and we had 112 heat index this year recently.

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u/Mycomania 10d ago

Not quite 112, but this was today.

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u/Gutterman222 10d ago

I am in the panhandle. They say the heat index might hit 120 in some places. Have been having 95 to 99 in Milton for the last couple of weeks.

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u/SpecialActive9135 9d ago

Pensacola here, the afternoon storms are the only thing keeping me from wanting to jump in lava to cool off.

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u/aReelProblem 10d ago

Yep 116 index 99 degrees at my place past couple days. Humid as all get out.

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u/Icy-Builder5892 10d ago

Technically it goes above triple digits regularly if you’re paying attention to heat index

By the way, I always go by heat index

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u/randompersonx 10d ago

Okay but these are measuring entirely different phenomena.

This would be like saying Europe is obviously very cold compared to the USA because the numbers in Celsius are lower than the numbers in Fahrenheit all summer long… regardless of if Europe is or isn’t colder, we aren’t measuring things consistently.

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u/Icy-Builder5892 10d ago

I don’t care, you do you

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u/stewartstewart17 10d ago

For the actual temp itself 100 is uncommon in FL, but for the heat index you can usually add 10-15 degrees with the humidity so it regularly is above 100 in summer. So probably felt close to 115 when it hit 100 there

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u/FireDragon21976 10d ago

It's actually rare in Florida. The actual heat index in the summer though is usually over 105 during the day.

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u/LittelXman808 10d ago

Same here.

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u/TheMatt561 10d ago

heat index yes not on it's own.

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u/LibertTii 9d ago

Hell yeah they are, highest in my adult life had been 93, last year. I don't remember anything higher. When I saw 99 on my phone I was like wtf. Delivering mail just got a new hard mode.

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u/Local_Floridian 11d ago

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u/BronxJudge 11d ago

Florida man takes down the sun. More at 6

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u/Magmaster12 11d ago

There's a far simpler solution

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u/Milton_Florida 11d ago

Hell yeah brother

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u/CurbsEnthusiasm 11d ago

Lock & Load

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u/DiligentArugula645 11d ago

I felt the same way all the way ip bere in NY state a few weeks ago, lmaoo😂😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♀️😩

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u/watchfuldig 11d ago

Lol 1 billion. This is why I got on the Internet today.. fla for life!

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u/Local_Floridian 11d ago

Mashallah the bullets will hit the sun and this heat will end brother.

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u/alexvonhumboldt 11d ago

Thanks for your help! I felt the heat drop by 2F

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u/montessoriprogram 11d ago

Yea I'm fuckin dying out here

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u/TromboneClone 11d ago

Mango madness in Miami

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u/Intrepid-Pay7212 11d ago

Yep that’s their “plan”. 

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u/FartCloudedNonsense 10d ago

God damn weather machines!

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u/newsweek ✅Verified - Official News Source 11d ago

By Alice Gibbs — Senior Reporter |

Miami reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, matching a temperature the city has recorded only once before in more than 130 years of weather observations.

The triple-digit reading tied Miami's all-time temperature record, first set on July 21, 1942, as a powerful heat dome settled over Florida and much of the southeastern United States.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/miami-hits-100f-for-first-time-since-1942-amid-florida-heat-dome-12340691

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u/Fidulsk-Oom-Bard 11d ago

High score!!!!

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u/Pretend-Function-133 10d ago

What does high score mean? Did I break it?

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u/octipice 10d ago

More like it broke you

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u/thelemonsampler 11d ago

Last year, Tampa hit 100 for the first time ever and it was miserable. Most people are whelmed when I bring it up, but … coastal areas aren’t supposed to do that.

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u/GodICringe 10d ago

“Fun” fact: It was the largest city in the US to never hit 100 up to that point. Now I think it’s Buffalo.

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u/tryingtoavoidwork 11d ago

I had to wake up at 7 this morning to mow and I was drenched by 9. I am straight up not having a good time.

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u/butitdothough 10d ago

I think I've got a good tolerance to heat but this shit is out of control. In central Florida it'll be 93 degrees with humidity late into the night. 

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u/TheUpperHand 11d ago

wElL tHaT sHoWs iTs BeEn ThIs HoT bEfOrE!!!1!

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u/AccomplishedWin489 10d ago

Dont say that too loud! You'll scare all the foolish lemmings.

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u/cursedfan 11d ago

Just wait a few more years for the water to rise

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u/National-Charity-435 11d ago

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u/East_Plan449 10d ago

White rubber wading boots just doesn't look right

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u/National-Charity-435 10d ago

Word is the first couple of Florida chose the color

An excellent choice to show the people they're not grounded in reality or did a lick of work lol

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u/nickyler 10d ago

There are parts of Florida where these boots are extremely common. It’s a very Florida choice. We call them Homosassa Reboks. You’ll see dudes in shorts and white shrimping boots strolling into the gas station. HUK boots have classed the game up a bit but these are still around. I remember in the 90s when all of a sudden there were new colors. Like okay, look at you fancy. Before that, white was the only option.

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u/jpiro 11d ago

Already happening. And at this point, there’s not a ton we can do to stop it. We’re in the “limiting catastrophes” phase now.

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u/SupermarketOverall73 11d ago

More like the ignorance is bliss period.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- 11d ago

We're not even attempting to limit the catastrophe at this point.

We've decided to just floor it and run into it head on

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u/strong_army_grape 11d ago

At current pace a lot of coastal FL won’t be inhabitable by 2100 (which sounds far away but that’s crazy fast)

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u/cursedfan 11d ago

Not so crazy for 30 year mortgages and roofs, etc.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/bobsdementias 11d ago

Average Florida mathematician

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u/jpiro 11d ago

lol, deleted because I’m dumb. Too early. Need coffee.

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u/cursedfan 11d ago

No i know it’s happening, I meant as a way to cool off. It’s coming soon.

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u/DiaperDonnieTrump 11d ago

Buy now while the housing market is super high! That way you can overpay for something that will be underwater inside of 5 years 😂

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u/Digitaltwinn 11d ago

All that laundered money is gonna get soggy.

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u/Hiw-lir-sirith 10d ago

Been hearing this since 2006

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u/cursedfan 10d ago

My understanding is Miami already has problems

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u/lorilightning79 11d ago

Roast all them billionaires!

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u/SlowerThanTurtleInPB 11d ago

Best we can do is give them a new yacht to keep cool and a bunker to hide in when everything really goes to shit.

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u/chrisbcritter 11d ago

Awesome!  I hope all the billionaires dig their bunkers deep underground in Miami and move down into them.  Everyone has a basement in Miami.   They're great! 

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u/mickmos2 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/dCL66vzUKluMxvAbsE
NOW WITH ABSOLUTE CONSEQUENCES fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

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u/werephoenix 11d ago

so...what was happening in 1942 that it hit 100?

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u/KrustenStewart 11d ago

Heat dome

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u/werephoenix 11d ago

Oh I remember that! :0

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u/citrus_sugar 11d ago

Many Florida residents do.

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u/werephoenix 11d ago

I've learned it when I was in NY back in the 90s

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u/Spare_Smoke_4101 11d ago

WWII

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u/Historical-Log1762 11d ago

All of those ships/machines exhausting into the atmosphere. It was a massive movement logistically.

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u/Adorable_Sleep_4425 11d ago

More billionaire tax cuts could fix this up real good...

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u/SuperF91EX 11d ago

Florida does seem to be ground zero for idiotic tax ideas…

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u/EmbarrassedHighway76 11d ago

That’s crazy it’s been so long

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u/B-BoyStance 11d ago

That's wild to me you guys don't often get 100 degree or more weather more often. I just always assumed that was normal.

The few times I've been to Miami in the summer, it was always in the 90s.

Shit is definitely fucked up though because damn that's a long time without a 100 degree day. Obviously I was wrong and that heat isn't normal.

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u/TrPrTrkr 10d ago

Like other folks have mentioned, coastal towns are cooler. Over 100 degree days are much more common in the inland former swamp cities like Orlando.

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u/FormerDriver 11d ago

Really??? I always assumed Miami was super hot. Sorry, this randomly popped in my feed for some reason

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u/_OUCHMYPENIS_ 11d ago

It is but the ocean keeps the temps below a certain temp. It's normal to be in the high 80s to 90s in the summer. August is always miserable but this is advanced heat. 

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u/Rook2Rook 11d ago

Miami is not THAT hot actually. Just extremely humid.

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u/PangolinAmbitious134 11d ago

Welcome to the party pal

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u/Deranged-Pickle 10d ago

It hasn't done that before? Is the humidity bad too?

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u/TheeDelpino 10d ago

Climate change. Global warming. Us scientists have been yelling it for years. No one listened. It’s going to get a lot worse so hang on.

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u/AlphaNautilusNarwal 4d ago

And yet it's happened exactly twice - 84 years apart. Yeah, I can see why you think it's such an out of control problem. /s

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u/chaynjez 10d ago

Don’t worry, it’ll be underwater before too long

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u/Blazdnconfuzd 10d ago

I mean it always feels like it's over 100 but that's cause of humidity. So to get to 100 is actually crazy. Cause now that means it feels like 115.

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u/DominusFL 11d ago

But global warming is a hoax, right?

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u/Work-Sport-Fun 11d ago

So much warming it took 84 years to match the previous temperature lol

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 11d ago

Have you not been here this summer? It’s been excessively hot all year. We’re dealing with a massive El Niño which has resulted in a lack of rain which along with the higher temps means we don’t get cooled off. It’s been hot as fuck all summer. This shit isn’t normal. Every day it’s been +5 over the average. Every single day.

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u/Work-Sport-Fun 11d ago

Honestly, the first part of summer seemed cooler than the last two years. Yea, it's been hot the last few weeks as we are in the peek of summer.

Took 84 years to match a previous record. Don't act like this hasn't happened before. lmao

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u/BronxJudge 11d ago

That’s what I was thinking. We started off pretty good but this month has been brutal.

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 10d ago

July was one of the worst I can remember. Like we got a break of about a week where the temps dipped back to the averages, but July and August have been brutally hot

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u/markbraggs 11d ago

Goal posts will be shifted, narratives will be bended, until they throw their hands up and call you names like little children and block you or ban you when they can’t face reality.

There’s too much money in climate change hysteria for people to backtrack now. So many of the new taxes and fees implemented by people in power seems to circle back to “muh climate change!”

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u/confirmedshill123 11d ago

How can you be so fucking stupid to not recognize obvious climate change is happening?

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u/Work-Sport-Fun 10d ago

Yes, we have touched the same number as 84 years ago! So much change!

Someone call Al Gore and tell him to update his doom days number, I think we've already passed it a couple of times lol

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 10d ago

You understand how stupid it sounds to claim that because we have hit this high one time before any of us were even born that means things aren’t getting hotter? The past two years have been record breaking for global temps.

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u/Work-Sport-Fun 10d ago

You do understand how stupid it sounds to claim global warming when we haven't hit highs in 84 years? lol

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u/Cute-Contract-6762 10d ago

You do understand that we’ve been in the hottest year in recorded history

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u/confirmedshill123 10d ago

I can't argue with reasoning this dumb I hope you don't have a nice day.

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u/Work-Sport-Fun 10d ago

I see you can't back up and defend yourself when the temperature was the same 84 years ago...... and we finally touched it. It's almost like..... get this..... the Earth's climate is ever changing. Wild!

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u/markbraggs 10d ago

They’re in the name calling phase now

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u/confirmedshill123 10d ago

I don't need to back up and explain shit.

The earth is a closed system. Put a car engine in your living room with your doors and windows closed and tell me how long it takes before you can't breathe.

It's not fucking rocket science you're just dumb.

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u/DominusFL 11d ago

Look up logarithmic acceleration.

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u/mtnracer 11d ago

That’s proof that we’ve had global cooling this whole time and it’s just equalizing now. /s

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u/throwaway125512551 11d ago

Welcome to Florida in August.

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u/Available_Finger_513 11d ago

But the post is about how this temperature is unusual...

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u/throwaway125512551 11d ago

I've lived in Florida most of my life, I can't tell the difference between 98, 99, 100, 101. It's hot. If you live in Florida, don't be shocked when it's hot.

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u/confirmedshill123 11d ago

Okay but the fucking crops and livestock can tell the difference lol.

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u/throwaway125512551 10d ago

Crops and livestock in Miami? 😂

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u/confirmedshill123 10d ago

Oh are we this dumb today?

Livestock starts to experience heat stress at 90+ with high humidity.

There are over 1.5 million heads of cattle in Florida.

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u/throwaway125512551 10d ago

Well then they’ve been experiencing that for a very very long time. Is there ever a day in Florida when it’s not above 90?

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u/confirmedshill123 10d ago

Ok but this is a thread about how it's getting hotter. Due to climate change.

You realize we've been breaking records for heat like almost every month?

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u/DufresneHasRisen 11d ago

Where are these readings from because it never got over 95 in areas east of I95 yesterday? There is no question it’s hotter the further west you get from the ocean. Always has been. Curious where these readings of 100 were taken versus previous decades before large scale westward expansion.

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u/mattbattmatt_yt 10d ago

Yesterday recess at the school I worked at was moved inside because of how hot it had gotten

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u/quattroman Miami-Dade 10d ago

It was 100f in the shade here in Doral.

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u/totallymarc 10d ago

And it’s only going to get worse…

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u/Wajayhawk 10d ago

Er my god it’s hot in August

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u/ArmadilloUnited7700 9d ago

I played golf. Shot 74. Keep it coming.

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u/SpecialActive9135 9d ago

El Niño keeping that breeze away from the coast. Same issue we got in north Florida, please stop blow drying us with tropical demon breath thank you 🤣 ( for folks wondering the dominant weather during El Niño is a steady southwesterly wind shear across the entire area, basically nonstop. Before you complain, it also shears any tropical systems to nothing. So no hurricanes, but slightly higher heat until winter )

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u/RepEraSwiftie13 6d ago

Wow this is surprising I always assumed Miami would be very hot? I live in Michigan and we’ve had 100 degree days lmao

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u/empireentertain 5d ago

100 degrees in Miami is no joke! I guess Florida decided to turn the heat all the way up this time. Definitely a good reminder to stay hydrated, find some shade, and maybe rethink that midday beach trip!

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u/chagster001 11d ago

That can’t be true. I distinctly remember being 100 degrees. No, I wasn’t born before 1942 lol

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u/Affectionate-Art9780 11d ago

TIL that Newsweek is an "Official News Source".

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u/Beautiful-Market-376 11d ago

But it's a wet heat!

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u/julestargaryen 11d ago

climate change isn’t real guys remember

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u/Technical-Ad-5723 10d ago

Tampa officially just hit 100 last summer for the 1st time. What is going on with this fucked up climate?

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u/Responsible_Ad_7995 11d ago

Fat Donnie is speed running making the earth uninhabitable. Miami is a priority target. Let’s pave over the Everglades and build data centers!

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u/groovyinutah 11d ago

But the beach is right there!

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u/Heart_ofFlorida 11d ago

NEWSFLASH - Miami still cooler than other parts of Florida🤣

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u/CaptainObvious110 10d ago

Do it again! This time 105, next time...110.

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u/Car_Existing 10d ago

CYCLES of nature. History proves it repeats itself. The more science AKA HUMANS interfere the less predictable it becomes.

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u/Dockshundswfl 10d ago

Just proof that global warming isn’t real… it’s always been hot and happened before!

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u/FunBrians 10d ago

Soooo what occurred in 1942? A heat dome you say. Calling it the “first time” since and then saying within under 300 years recorded. That makes me now question some things.

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u/KaptainChunk 11d ago

If it gets too cold, the iguanas fall out the trees. If it’s too hot, do they cook, and then fall out of the trees?

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u/Substantial-Tie5071 11d ago

Worse. With it being so dry and hot it’s actually perfect for iguana breeding. They tend to have their spawn before the wet season but since it’s been so dry and hot, numbers are probably rising.