{"id":76034,"date":"2025-12-08T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76034\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:08:23","slug":"mls-cup-kicks-off-with-84-degree-temp-hottest-in-league-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76034\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS Cup kicks off with 84-degree temp, hottest in league history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are playing in the warmest MLS Cup final in the league\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The game-time temperature in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday was 84 degrees (28 degrees Celsius) at kickoff of Inter Miami\u2019s match against the Vancouver Whitecaps, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the 60% relative humidity, and that made the heat index feel like 87 degrees (30 degrees Celsius). The teams caught a bit of a break on a very sunny day; the bench areas were shrouded by clouds long before kickoff, but most fan seats were in the direct sun when the match began.<\/p>\n<p>It was unseasonably warm, even for South Florida. The typical high temperature at this time of year is around 78 degrees (26 degrees Celsius).<\/p>\n<p>The previous record for hottest MLS Cup final, according to the league, was an 81-degree (27-degree Celsius) game time temperature in 2004, when D.C. United beat Kansas City 3-2 at Carson, California.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver was considerably cooler on Saturday, as would be expected. The temperature there at kickoff time was 50 degrees (10 degrees Celsius).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are playing in the warmest MLS Cup final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1882,28,249,251,250,477,5429,1660,30587,10225,10191,2062,110,9985],"class_list":["post-76034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-general-news","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-mls-cup","tag-mls-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76034","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=76034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}