Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Miami Lakes, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami Opa Locka Airport, FL, 2 miles east of Miami Lakes at 10 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 77°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.9 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 62.7 inches over 84 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 71% of the year's precipitation (44.5 of 62.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 86 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 100 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 62.7 inches is more than at 103 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (82%). Doral, 5 miles southwest, has its own station (Miami International Airport, FL): 67.5 inches a year, 4.8 more than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 15 miles southeast, 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, 15 miles from Miami Lakes, 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 240 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Miami Lakes: 131 thunderstorm wind reports, 49 floods, 34 lightning strikes, 20 flash floods and 6 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 15, and the NWS estimated $5.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on May 15, 2006. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 224 have had fewer than Miami Lakes.

Flood insurance policyholders in Miami Lakes's ZIP code 33014 have filed 475 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $1.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 1999: 131 claims (28% of all) and $640,000, then Flooding in 2000 with 90 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 32. 70% 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, 202 have fewer than Miami Lakes.