Miami.- The International Airport of Miami (MIA) registered this Friday record temperature of 97 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius), with a wind chill reaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) along the east coast of Florida, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
«Another record broken at MIA as the temperature hit 97 degrees Fahrenheit today!” the NWS said on social media.
It is not only, he added, a record for this date, but also “it is the highest temperature observed at the Miami airport since July 2020,” when 95 degrees Fahrenheit was registered.
“Unfortunately, there is no heat relief in sight,” NWS Miami forecasters warned.
Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties maintain a heat advisory in effect until 7:00 p.m. local time, the first two, and until 4:00 p.m. local time, the third.
Miami-Dade County firefighters alerted the population in a tweet about the heat wave that is hitting southeast Florida and asked residents and visitors “to stay hydrated and drink plenty of fluids.”
The fire department asked the population to protect “those most vulnerable from the heat, especially children and the elderly and never leave children or pets unattended in a car.”
This Wednesday an 18-month-old baby died of hyperthermia after spending 8 hours forgotten by her parents inside a car parked outdoors at her home in central Florida.
“The car was parked outside, not in a garage, not under a tree, not under any shade. The investigation shows us that the temperature of the car could have been between 130 and 170 degrees (Fahrenheit) at that time” (54-76 degrees Celsius), Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Leaving a child in a vehicle is a very high-risk situation that in the United States alone has left 950 dead from heat stroke (hyperthermia) from 1998 to the present, according to data from the No Heat Stroke organization.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the scientific arm of the United Nations, warned on Thursday that temperatures can be expected to continue rising, after last month’s record as the hottest June in the history of which there are records and two records. average daily temperature this week.
The organization explained that sea surface temperatures have also broken records in May and June.
The exceptional warming in June and the beginning of July have occurred when the El Niño phenomenon begins to develop, which is expected to increase the heat both on land and in the oceans and lead to more extreme temperatures and marine heat waves, ” said WMO Director of Climate Services Chris Hewitt.
Also this Thursday, Colorado State University (CSU) published an update to its forecasts for the hurricane season in the Atlantic and highlighted that above-average cyclonic activity can be expected, due to the “extreme anomalous heat” recorded on the sea surface. .
In such a way that the computation could increase to 18 named tropical storms and 9 hurricanes, of which 4 would be of a higher category.
“There are currently anomalies in the temperature of the sea surface (…), with record heat in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic,” said Philip Klotzbach, head of the CSU Department of Atmospheric Sciences, on social media.
