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‘Insane’ Heat Has Been Scorching Miami. It’s Not Even June. [1]

['Patricia Mazzei']

Date: 2024-05-21

Meteorologists in Miami, it is fair to say, are accustomed to drama: sunny-day flooding, severe rainstorms, strong hurricanes.

So it is telling — and scary — that they seem at a loss for words to describe the extreme heat that the city experienced over the past few days, a full month ahead of summer.

“It’s completely crazy, what just happened,” Brian McNoldy, a senior research scientist at the University of Miami, said.

“It’s insane,” said John Morales, a meteorologist for ClimaData, a private weather forecasting and consulting firm, and a hurricane specialist at WTVJ-TV, the NBC station in Miami. “Not only is it insane, it is also dangerous.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/us/miami-heat-summer-weather.html

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