After an unusually rainy Independence Day weekend, weather experts predict this week will go back to a more typical South Florida “summertime pattern.”
This often looks like sunny mornings followed by scattered showers later in the day. There also will be the potential for ‘feels-like’ temperatures to surpass 100 degrees.
Chances for thunderstorms will hover around 40% to 50% in the afternoons, said Anthony Reynes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami.
The first few days of July saw “above-normal rainfall,” Reynes said, but that trend is expected to calm this week.
Temperatures are expected to be higher as a result of the lessened rain and overcast conditions, though, Reynes said. High temperatures are expected to be in upper-80s and lower-90s, with the ‘feels-like’ temps exceeding 100 degrees.
Feels-like temps are calculated, in part, by factoring in humidity to the actual temperature. Reynes said some heat advisories could be issued in parts of the South Florida this week as feels-like temperatures climb.
“This is the time of the year where we can experience that because this is the hottest, the warmest time of the year. It will be the month of July and August,” Reynes said.