Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Miami Shores, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami Beach, FL, 5 miles southeast of Miami Shores at 1 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 74°F and 61°F. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 69% of the year's precipitation (39.6 of 57.3 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 84 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal October there has highs of 84°F and 6.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 30 days a year, almost all from May to September. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 57.3 inches is more than at 87 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (70%). North Miami, 3 miles north, has its own station (N Miami Beach #2, FL): 68.4 inches a year, 11.1 more than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 9 miles south, 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, 9 miles from Miami Shores, 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 279 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Miami Shores: 117 thunderstorm wind reports, 83 floods, 43 flash floods, 28 lightning strikes and 8 heavy rain events. They killed 3 people and injured 24, and the NWS estimated $9.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on May 15, 2006. June has had the most flash floods, 12 of 43. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 269 have had fewer than Miami Shores.

Flood insurance policyholders in Miami Shores's ZIP code 33138 have filed 785 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $9.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 158 claims (20% of all) and $5.4 million, then Flooding in 2000 with 150 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 94. 71% 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, 223 have fewer than Miami Shores.