{"id":269447,"date":"2026-05-13T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:40:22","slug":"is-it-always-this-hot-in-miami-in-may-we-asked-a-weather-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269447\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Always This Hot in Miami In May? We Asked a Weather Expert."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is fine (with apologies to K.C. Green<\/a>).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

New Times photo-illustration (Virginia Key photo by Jessica Gibbs; \u201cIt\u2019s Fine\u201d Lego by Kyle Keller\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve spent any amount of time outside during the past few days, you may have noticed that it feels hot. Like, really, really, realllllly hot. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, as temperatures in Miami reached unbearably high temperatures in the mid-90s, one curious (and presumably clammy) Redditor in the r\/Miami subreddit: \u201cIs anyone else concerned about the weather ??\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been so hot recently! Outside feels like high 90s in early May that\u2019s crazy,\u201d the user wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot concerned. Usually around Mother\u2019s Day the oven turns on and then in August the broiler turns on,\u201d one person commented. <\/p>\n

Sign up for the Arts & Culture newsletter to get the latest stories delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n

THANK YOU!<\/p>\n

You’re all set.<\/p>\n

CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when did ya move here,\u201d another wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember my first time in Miami,\u201d a third quipped. <\/p>\n

But while many of the nearly 200 replies suggested the recent sweltering heat is part of the annual 305 experience, Brian McNoldy \u2014 a senior research associate at the University of Miami\u2019s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science \u2014 tells New Times this level of heat and humidity is pretty unusual for mid-May.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been unreasonably steamy lately,\u201d McNoldy explains, adding that the current weather would be typical for late June.<\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service (NWS), temperatures in Miami reached a high of 94 degrees Fahrenheit on May 2 and have climbed into the 90s for several consecutive days since May 7.<\/p>\n

McNoldy says the heat index \u2014 also known as the \u201cfeels like\u201d temperature \u2014 set new records on May 7 and May 9 and could continue doing so in the coming days.<\/p>\n

He says the main reason it feels so much hotter right now is the \u201cextra juicy air,\u201d or high dew point (a measure of the amount of moisture in the air), which he says hit new record highs this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe very high dewpoint is what makes it feel so oppressive,\u201d McNoldy says.<\/p>\n

Luckily, there might be some reprieve on the horizon.<\/p>\n

According to an NWS forecast, some rain and thunderstorms could potentially arrive in Miami later today.<\/p>\n

\u201cContinued warm today with some scattered showers and storms possible this afternoon into early evening,\u201d the weather forecast office wrote<\/a> on X (formerly known as Twitter). <\/p>\n

Until then, we\u2019ll be keeping our sweaty fingers and toes crossed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is fine (with apologies to K.C. Green). New Times photo-illustration (Virginia Key photo by Jessica Gibbs; \u201cIt\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,221],"class_list":["post-269447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}