Currently in Miami — June 22, 2023: Hot temperatures and scattered and brief showers and thunderstorms; Temperaturas cálidas con aguaceros y tormentas dispersas y breves

The weather, currently.

Thursday’s weather in South Florida will be similar to Wednesday’s: a few quick showers and thunderstorms that will favor the northern and interior communities, along with hot temperatures in the low-to-mid 90s. These showers will be limited in their development due to the departure of the upper-level low pressure system that had been generating the stronger storms from earlier this week. Towards the weekend, however, more unstable conditions and high moisture levels will promote scattered to numerous thunderstorms–the most severe of which could be accompanied by strong gusts, small hail, frequent lightning, and localized flooding.

El tiempo, currently.

El tiempo del jueves en el sur de la Florida será similar al del miércoles: algunos aguaceros y tormentas eléctricas breves que favorecerán a las comunidades del norte y del interior, junto con temperaturas cálidas entre los rangos bajo a medio de los 90 grados. Estos aguaceros serán limitados debido a la salida del sistema de baja presión en altura que había estado generando las tormentas más fuertes a principios de esta semana. Hacia el fin de semana, condiciones más inestables y altos niveles de humedad provocarán tormentas eléctricas dispersas a numerosas, las más severas de las cuales podrían estar acompañadas de fuertes ráfagas, granizo pequeño, relámpagos frecuentes e inundaciones localizadas.

—John Morales

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What you need to know, currently.

Tropical Storm Bret, the first named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten land, is expected to pass through the Leeward Islands on Thursday, very close to Barbados.

Initially forecast to grow into the season’s first hurricane, Bret has struggled and should remain a mid-range tropical storm until it dissipates in a day or two in the Caribbean Sea. It should pose no severe threat to the islands besides the potential for some heavy rainfall.

This year’s list of storm names is a modified version of the same list used in 2005, 2011 and 2017. It’s one of the most notorious lists of the six lists in regular rotation with the names Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan, Wilma, Irene, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate removed due to their outsized impact to protect the mental health of survivors.

—Eric Holthaus