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Florida's year divides by rain more than by temperature. The wet season runs from about the middle of May to the middle of October.
In South Florida the National Weather Service dates it May 15 to October 15, and 60 to 70 percent of the year's rain falls in those five months; around Tampa Bay it starts about May 25, and on the Space Coast around May 28. It is a season of warm, humid days and frequent showers and thunderstorms, and it brings lightning, damaging winds, flooding and now and then hail and tornadoes. It peaks from July into early September, when the heat index often reaches 100 degrees or more. The dry season follows, from the middle of October into May, with far less rain. The wet season overlaps most of hurricane season, which runs June 1 to November 30. If you are timing a visit or a move by the weather, the dry months are the easy ones and the height of summer is the hardest.
01Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. The National Hurricane Center puts its peak on September 10, with most of the activity from mid-August to mid-October.
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02Yes, more than anywhere else in the country. In the National Weather Service's count from 1959 to 2004, Florida had 2,117 people killed or injured by lightning, more than twice North Carolina, which was second with 818.
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03The weather decides most of it. From about the middle of October into May is the dry season, with far less rain, and in the Keys a normal January afternoon is about 74 degrees.
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04In the north, yes. The Panhandle and the Big Bend have a real winter: the National Weather Service puts the average first freeze at Tallahassee on November 25, and on the coast at Apalachicola on December 13.
Read the answer →Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. The National Hurricane Center puts its peak on September 10, with most of the activity from mid-August to mid-October.
In the north, yes. The Panhandle and the Big Bend have a real winter: the National Weather Service puts the average first freeze at Tallahassee on November 25, and on the coast at Apalachicola on December 13.
Yes, more than anywhere else in the country. In the National Weather Service's count from 1959 to 2004, Florida had 2,117 people killed or injured by lightning, more than twice North Carolina, which was second with 818.
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