{"id":375636,"date":"2026-08-19T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:20:10","slug":"miami-hit-an-all-time-record-on-tuesday-its-more-significant-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375636\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami hit an all-time record on Tuesday. It\u2019s more significant than you think."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Miami tied its all-time high temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, amid a sprawling heat wave that is affecting areas from Texas to the Southeast. The heat wave, caused by a stalled-out heat dome<\/a>, continues on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Yes, it\u2019s significant that Miami tied its all-time record. It\u2019s another example of the extreme warming trend caused by climate pollution. But perhaps what\u2019s more surprising is how relatively cool the record is in Miami \u2014 a city with a reputation for being hot.\n <\/p>\n

\n \ud83e\udd75 When will it cool down? Get your forecast in the CNN Weather app<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n As Miami hit 100 degrees on Tuesday, parts of Oklahoma saw high temperatures soar well past that, with Kingfisher reaching 112 degrees<\/a>, a record high there for the date. The all-time hottest temperature on record anywhere in Florida is 109 degrees. Oklahoma\u2019s is 120 degrees. Minnesota\u2019s is 115 degrees.\n <\/p>\n

\n So what\u2019s up with Florida?\n <\/p>\n

\n The relatively low all-time record in Miami is tied to its proximity to the ocean and the city\u2019s typically high levels of humidity. It is more difficult for the sun\u2019s energy to heat very humid air to extreme levels than it is to raise the temperature of dry air. A lot of the solar energy goes into evaporating the moisture in the air, so in drier climates, more of the Sun\u2019s energy can go directly into heating the air.\n <\/p>\n

\n This is part of the reason the hottest locations in the US are in the desert Southwest, rather than in the humid Southeast.\n <\/p>\n

\n Still, Miami \u2014 and the rest of the Southeast \u2014 has been experiencing a sharp increase in extreme heat in recent years, including dangerous combinations of heat and humidity that can cause people to succumb to heat illness.\n <\/p>\n

\n Miami now has 44 more days<\/a> with temperatures above normal during the summer months compared to the city\u2019s summer climate during the 1970s, according to the nonprofit climate research and communications group Climate Central.\n <\/p>\n

\n For the summer months of June, July and August, the city has warmed by 2.6 degrees on average, Climate Central found. The city has seen a huge jump in annual days of dangerously humid heat, going from 50 such days in the 1970s to 117 days in the 2016 to 2025 period, Climate Central researchers found<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n They attributed a significant proportion of today\u2019s dangerous heat days \u2014 80 days \u2014 to human-caused climate change from burning fossil fuels. Tuesday was a good example of a day with dangerously high levels of heat and humidity, as the heat index, which measures how the air feels to the human body, soared as high as 107 degrees.\n <\/p>\n

\n Miami is forecast to be unusually hot once again on Wednesday, with heat advisories covering all of the Florida Peninsula, with the exception of the Florida Keys, and a forecast high temperature in the mid-to-upper 90s in the city.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami tied its all-time high temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, amid a sprawling heat wave that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-375636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375636","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=375636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}