Currently in Miami — July 25, 2023: Heat persists

The weather, currently.

Not to sound like a broken record, but Tuesday will be another day of intense heat across South Florida. An Excessive Heat Warning was issued for Miami-Dade County again on Monday while the rest of South Florida remains under a Heat Advisory, and we should expect the same on Tuesday as the forecast shows consistent heat through the rest of this workweek. Temperatures will stay in the mid-to-upper 90s, but the humidity will make it feel like more like 105-112 degrees. Throughout the week, rain chances will increase as moist air replaces the Saharan dust in the mid-levels of the atmosphere, but scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms are the expectation on Tuesday.

El tiempo, actualmente.

No es por sonar como un disco rayado, pero el martes será otro día de calor intenso en todo el sur de la Florida. El lunes se emitió nuevamente un Aviso de Calor Excesivo para el condado de Miami-Dade mientras que el resto del sur de la Florida permaneció bajo una advertencia de calor, y deberíamos esperar lo mismo el martes, ya que el pronóstico muestra calor constante durante el resto de esta semana laboral. Las temperaturas se mantendrán en los rangos medio a alto de los 90 grados, pero la humedad hará que se sienta más como 105-112 grados. Durante la semana, las posibilidades de lluvia aumentarán a medida que aire húmedo reemplace el polvo del Sahara en los niveles medios de la atmósfera, pero se esperan aguaceros dispersos y tormentas eléctricas aisladas el martes.

—John Morales

What you can do, currently.

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What you need to know, currently.

Extreme temperatures reaching 45°C (113°F) amid the hottest July weekend in 50 years in the Greek island of Rhodes helped fan horrific wildfires over the weekend that prompted the largest evacuation in the long history of Greece.

Nearly 20,000 people were forced to seek shelter on the island, with some evacuating by boat ahead of the growing flames. The fires progressed extremely rapidly towards the sea, forcing the evacuation over the span of several hours. The fires look even more horrific from space, with the burn scar covering nearly 10 percent of the island.

Most of those who were evacuated were tourists, some of whom described a “near-death experience”.

The fires are getting a lot of media attention, and rightfully so. The Mediterranean is one of the epicenters of this year’s surge in global temperatures, that have also affected much of eastern North America, as well as China. The Mediterranean heat wave is especially affecting migrants making the dangerous voyage from North Africa to Italy, as Currently has previously reported, and which also recorded its all-time highest temperatures in recent days.

A paper published last year concluded that the "prevalence and extremity of fire weather has already emerged beyond its pre-industrial variability in the Mediterranean due to climate change" — namely that the fires in Greece cannot be explained without the influence of decades of burning fossil fuels.

—Eric Holthaus