Florida weather question for Aug.

[LilGMom]

Can you guys recommend a good site which tracks hurricanes for Florida and area? I am nervous...just heard about Berta - first of season....

Any of the weather sites (i.e. weather.com, accuweather, intellicast, noaa.gov to name a few) will track hurricanes. Bertha isn't one to be concerned about.

 

[ericafny]

IMO florida realy is not that hot. It may just be that ive never gone further than 2 hours into goriga (sp?) but i think yall are nuts! i dont live far from orlando its not that hot i can go out side and walk all day all i need is some water and im fine. Its the cold i hate you will never see me out side when its cold ever.

You are too funny! Being from NY I could probably say the same thing about the cold. I guess if you grow up in the climate you get used to it. What's wrong with 25 degrees and snowing?!?

 

[jamieT]

you can recreate Central Florida in mid August in your kitchen, it will even approximate the WDW experience. Fill your largest pot 3/4 full with water and bring to a rolling boil. Wait in line for 120 min. while standing under a heat lamp, if you have a fast pass you may skip this step. Now get in.

Too funny! Sad that it's acurate and I'll be in it in August as well, but funny from my air conditioned living room!

 

[bawstngrl]

IMO florida realy is not that hot. .

Uhhhh..as compared to what? the Sahara desert? Las Vegas in the summer?

I have lived here for 7 1/2 years and , as Kevin said, it gets HOT and then the next day it gets HOTTER......starts in June and continues until one miraculous day in October when the humidity just cuts out and it is GORGEOUS for at least 6months.

September is traditionally the worst month for hurricanes around here, but thery could happen in August....(though with the exception of 2004, no hurricanes have touched Disney area)

bawstngrl/Marianna

 

[safetymom]

I have lived here in FL for almost 5 years. I don't find the summers much worse than when I lived in PA. 100% humidity makes it bad whether it is PA or FL.

At least here my home has a/c.

I don't mind the heat. I would rather deal with the heat then worry about snow during the other part of the year.

 

[sdzman]

I am so happy that we will be there Sept 5th when the hot humid summer is over......


BTW, I live in FL too and not having to pay for heating oil is well worth the FL summers.

 

[DrDeb]

i'm there SEPT 5 too...hurricanes???? never been in SEPT help!

 

[mjperry]

WX in Florida HOTT!!!!!!!!!!! Humidity you can cut with a knife feels like your in steam room. Go in your bathroom turn the heater on and the Hott water on in the shower. then come back in about 15 Min thats how it feels.

 

[MM32830]

I am in the Orlando area (today only). I came down for only a couple of days (business). It is a little steamy. I try avoiding Central Florida in the summer. Yes, it may not be much different than the northern part of the country at times, but the difference is that the northern states don't have 92 degrees and 95% humidity every single day of the summer. Florida rarely sees a break in the temps and humdity.

As I write this at 10:15 PM, the temp is 82 degrees with 80% humdity. Weather.com says it "feels like" 89 degrees.



Armand

 

[mandymommy4]

I was "fortunate" enough to be staying at Disney World during a hurricane. It wasn't planned.

DW and I were meeting up with friends that were driving down from Michigan and we were going to stay with them at Saratoga Springs.. We decided to stay at POP for a couple of days before our friends arrived.

It just so happened that Hurricane Jeanne decided to visit Central Florida. I was very impressed on how well Disney took care of their guests during the state of emergency.

We were not allowed to move to SS during the hurricane. They required we stay at POP for an extra day and they extended the special rate we had (Florida Resident).

We also found out that all of Disney's properties are built to Category 5 standards. Many Floridians in the path of a hurricane will typically stay at Disney to ride out a hurricane.

We've owned a home in Central Florida for 7 years now and we've only had one hurricane come through the area. It seems that Central Florida is somewhat insulated from most hurricanes. By the time hurricanes make their way across the state, they typically lose most of their strength and are just tropical storms.

Now, I think I've just jinxed the area. Watch all the hurricanes hit Central Florida this year. And it will be all my fault!!

Armand

Your right, It is odd that a hurricane effect Central FL with more than rain but we have to remember the summer of 2004! I never took hurricanes seriously because as a native of central FL all we ever got was a lot of rain. The city I live in was visited by Charley, Frances, and Jeanne. I was with out power for about 4 weeks all together and almost every other home either had a blue roof or was destroyed by oak trees that crashed down on then. POLK county was the bulls eye for all three storms! I don't say this to cause alarm, until then hurricanes brought no more than heavy rain and a day off of school! LOL!
Knock on wood, it will be many many more years until we have another "2004 season" but I certainly prepare and over prepare now! I had a baby and had no bottled water and not many can foods, thank goodness we have family close by that we ended up living with after EVERY hurricane! Boy was I glad to see that season over with!

Hurricanes CAN affect central FL, but it is rare!

 

[safetymom]

The summer 0f 2004 was my first in FL. I thought living in the center of the state would be good if there ever was a hurricane. I have a sister that lives in St. Augustine and a daughter that lives in Melbourne. They would have a place to evacuate to.

Of course we got it in Polk County. There is nothing like sitting in your windowless bathroom listening to things hitting your house and hearing the shingles flying off your roof. The first hurricane blew about 1/2 the shingles off and damaged the rest of them.

The next two hurricanes did more damage to the roof and by the 3rd one I had buckets in every room.

It is really something to walk into a grocery store and not see any frozen food and the shelves bare.

We lived with a tarp on the roof for over a year till we could finally get someone to reroof the house. We also lived with electricity for several weeks. We did stay at WDW for part of the time.

Nothing like throwing out ruined food from the freezer.

 

[mandymommy4]

The summer 0f 2004 was my first in FL. I thought living in the center of the state would be good if there ever was a hurricane. I have a sister that lives in St. Augustine and a daughter that lives in Melbourne. They would have a place to evacuate to.

Of course we got it in Polk County. There is nothing like sitting in your windowless bathroom listening to things hitting your house and hearing the shingles flying off your roof. The first hurricane blew about 1/2 the shingles off and damaged the rest of them.

The next two hurricanes did more damage to the roof and by the 3rd one I had buckets in every room.

It is really something to walk into a grocery store and not see any frozen food and the shelves bare.

We lived with a tarp on the roof for over a year till we could finally get someone to reroof the house. We also lived with electricity for several weeks. We did stay at WDW for part of the time.

Nothing like throwing out ruined food from the freezer.

What a great 1st summer you had~

Safetymom! I totally KWYM! We sat in the bath tub with a crib mattress over me and my two baby's During Charley, and I was prego too. Our neighbors house ended up with a tree in the middle of the house and they had to run to our house! Our other neighbors house roof was a old metal roof and half of it was peeled back like a tin can. They rode out the storm in their shed! 3 houses down our neighbor freaked out and tried to leave and a tree fell on her car as she was pulling out of her carport! She was ok but then was stuck in her car during the storm and about dies because of a panic attack!

I could not ride out the next 2 storms in our house because the damage was still not fixed.... we went to my Grandmothers house, she has more interior rooms and closets with no windows! By the time Jeanne rolled in I was so fed up with tarps and all the issues we had from Charley and Frances I secretly wished my house would just blow away so we could start over, LOL! We have a lot of property in Lake Wales and I was hoping to build a house with no trees in a 1/2 mile radius! LOL!

Yea, the freezer was gross after no electricity for 2 weeks! We had a ton of meat, my DH family raises beef and pork and we get a LOT of good stuff!

 

[bawstngrl]

I was here in Central FL for three of the four storms......(the last one I just happened to be in Boston!!)

Clermont did not get the brunt of the storms - thank God - most of our houses were very new and up to code, so a little water seepage on the North side was about it. Power went out once for a day.
we were VERY LUCKY compared to some areas like Kissimmee and Polk County.

Bawstngrl/Marianna