How has the weather in Miami, Florida been the past few weeks?
We were sweating buckets on Monday, pumping out flood water on Friday and we’ll be pulling on our warm slippers on Sunday. Blame it on the tides, El Niño, poor street drainage, global warming. South Florida’s weather gods sure have us spinning on a pre-winter roller coaster. This week, record-breaking heat gave way to torrential rain, which gave way to flooding and tornadoes. There will be a peek of warm sunshine Saturday and Sunday before dropping into the low 40s by the end of the weekend. Meteorologists scrambled to get a handle on the punishing storms on Thursday and Friday that caught most of the region by surprise — including the weather forecasters. A chain of brutal thunderstorms barreled across South Florida late Thursday, pounding the coastal areas — but leaving some western towns and cities relatively unscathed. The thrashing followed a rare weeklong December heat wave that greeted winter snowbirds. Some areas of Southeast Broward and North Miami-Dade recorded more than a
We were sweating buckets on Monday, pumping out flood water on Friday and we’ll be pulling on our warm slippers on Sunday. Blame it on the tides, El Niño, poor street drainage, global warming. South Florida’s weather gods sure have us spinning on a pre-winter roller coaster. This week, record-breaking heat gave way to torrential rain, which gave way to flooding and tornadoes. There will be a peek of warm sunshine Saturday and Sunday before dropping into the low 40s by the end of the weekend. Meteorologists scrambled to get a handle on the punishing storms on Thursday and Friday that caught most of the region by surprise — including the weather forecasters. A chain of brutal thunderstorms barreled across South Florida late Thursday, pounding the coastal areas — but leaving some western towns and cities relatively unscathed. The thrashing followed a rare weeklong December heat wave that greeted winter snowbirds. Some areas of Southeast Broward and North Miami-Dade recorded more than a
