Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sunny Isles Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is N Miami Beach #2, FL, 5 miles west of Sunny Isles Beach at 10 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 59°F. September is the wettest at 10.3 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 2.3 inches; the year adds up to 68.4 inches over 109 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 71% of the year's precipitation (48.8 of 68.4 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 86 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 78 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 68.4 inches is more than at 120 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (96%). Hallandale Beach, 3 miles north, has its own station (Hollywood, FL): 65.1 inches a year, 3.3 less than here, and the same August average high, 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 10 miles north, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 15 miles from Sunny Isles Beach, 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 217 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sunny Isles Beach: 111 thunderstorm wind reports, 45 floods, 32 flash floods, 23 lightning strikes and 6 heavy rain events. They killed 2 people and injured 15, and the NWS estimated $36.4 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, 9 of 32. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 258 have had fewer than Sunny Isles Beach.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sunny Isles Beach's ZIP code 33160 have filed 882 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $21.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Andrew in 1992: 108 claims (12% of all) and $1.7 million, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 102 and Flooding in 2000 with 80. 55% 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, 235 have fewer than Sunny Isles Beach.