Miami, FL weather
Right now 88°, mostly clear · today 88° / 78°, thunderstorm · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 88° · mostly clear · wind SSE 9 mph · 2° cooler than this time yesterday · at Miami, 2:40 PM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Heat index values as high as 100. South wind 2 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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Winter in Miami
Miami sees essentially no snow in an average year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a essentially snowless place. Measurable snow is close to unheard of. On the rare occasion it falls, everything stops.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 0 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 0.5 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Miami
The nearest radiosonde launch is Miami, about 12 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Miami (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 8:16 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.