Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Coral Gables, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami WSO City, FL, 2 miles southwest of Coral Gables at 15 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 80°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 64°F. June is the wettest at 8.7 inches of precipitation on average and March the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 51.1 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 68% of the year's precipitation (34.8 of 51.1 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 85 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 84°F and 6.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 29 days a year, almost all from June to September. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 51.1 inches is more than at 25 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (20%). Key Biscayne, 7 miles southeast, has its own station (Cape Florida, FL): 55.3 inches a year, 4.2 more than here, and a July average high of 91°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 7 miles east, averaged 89°F in August and 73°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 7 miles from Coral Gables, has risen 1.26 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 76 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 289 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Coral Gables: 148 thunderstorm wind reports, 75 floods, 30 flash floods, 26 lightning strikes and 10 heavy rain events. They killed 2 people and injured 15, and the NWS estimated $3.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on January 8, 1998. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 254 have had fewer than Coral Gables.

Flood insurance policyholders in Coral Gables's 2 ZIP codes have filed 252 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Andrew in 1992: 56 claims (22% of all) and $414,000, then Flooding in 2000 with 54 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 25. 68% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 340 Florida cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 164 have fewer than Coral Gables.