‘My FPL bill has doubled!’ String of heat advisories has Miami steaming

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‘My FPL bill has doubled!’ String of heat advisories has Miami steaming

The National Weather Service in Miami issued its ninth consecutive heat advisory alert Wednesday morning, forecasting “feels-like” temperatures between 105 and 108 degrees.

The alert is in effect from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for all of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

The actual air temperature hits peak 93 degrees at 2 p.m. and is expected to simmer there until 5 p.m. We’ll have to wait until at least 8 Wednesday evening before the needle dips below 90 and 7 p.m. before the heat index returns to double digits at 99.

Don’t look for rain to cool things down until at least Friday when there’s a 40% chance of thunderstorms.

“Chances of rain will decrease today with increasing Saharan dust,” forecasters said Wednesday morning.

“My FPL bill has doubled!!! From $320 a month to almost $600. WOW!! This is crazy and I feel like my A/C can’t keep up with the heat outside specially hours between 3 p.m. until 7 p.m.,” Harold Chong of Miami-Dade’s Sunset Park neighborhood posted on the social media site Nextdoor on Tuesday.

HVAC repair folks suggested that those feeling similar pain “check your indoor coil to make sure it’s clean, also check to make sure you have insulation in the attic” and recommended AC service at least once a year.

FPL suggests setting your AC to its auto mode to save wear on the fan and to set the thermostat between 75 and 78 degrees to reduce your monthly bill.

How hot is it?

Ticket aggregating platform Seat Pick released its “survivability” survey of stadiums hosting World Cup matches just ahead of the England-Norway pairing on July 11 when Miami was broiling under the ongoing wave of heat alerts. Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium ranked sixth in the middle of 11 U.S.-hosted stadiums.

Miami Gardens’ Mayor Rodney Harris’ team had issued a severe weather alert on Instagram concurrently with the release of the survey when the forecast called for the same 108 heat index peak that led to this week’s alerts.

The main problem with the stadium, according to the Seat Pick survey: “blistering feels-like temperatures of 111°F, while forking out $12 for a pint of beer.”

Not the best way to keep cool, experts say, but we sympathize with the cold beer blast. Alcohol is dehydrating.

Instead, “drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors,” the Miami weather service said in its alert. “Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illness.”

By fluids they mean water. Water with electrolytes is also preferable for those sweating outdoors.

“It doesn’t matter who you are or how long you’ve been in an environment,” Lester Cedeño of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation told Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami. “Heat stress can set upon anyone at any time, so just listen to your body.”

Will there be a 10th and 11th consecutive day of heat alerts?

Expect them. While the Miami weather service tends to issue the alerts in the early morning hours on affected days, a 105 heat index is expected Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons.

Weekend rain and storm chances are between 30 and 40%.