Oh NO!!! The Weather!?!?

[jwhiting]

Oh dear. We often look at this webcam site

www.orlando-webcams.com

to get an idea of the weather & current conditions in Orlando. It's not looking good!!

We fly next Weds, someone cheer me up!! I don't want to put my Poncho on as soon as I leave MCO!!

 

[slinky101]

hi, we flew home on thursday, it was raining when we left and it rained all day wed, tue it rained in morning but was glorious in afternoon, up until tue the weather had been amazing, still in the 80's at 11pm, i,m sure it will go as quickly as it came and you will have a fantastic time. weather didn't stop us enjoying ourselves, we shopped instead, it doesn't rain in the malls! have a great time

 

[Red-Snapper]

It doesnt stay rainy for long, from now on through the summer you will get rain most days, usually mid-late afternoon but its hot and sunny most days also.

We got caught up in hurrricane frances last year and we still had great weather until a few hours before it hit

 

[paulh]

you usaly get the rain most days with the T Storms when the cold air from the atlantic hits the warm air from the gulf so midday to about 4pm most days you will get storms nearly every day througth summer.Sometimes when there is a huracane about it takes the bad weather with it (honest gov) after anddrew we had 2 weeks without a clowed in sky
Paulh

 

[rosiejo]

That's a great site! Not come across it before. Does look a bit damp - I think I spied some ponchos outside USF

 

[tonyc]

Just got back this morning and it was pouring down all day yesterday.

 

[samphe]

We are on holiday right now in Orlando. It's our 3rd week here. The first 2 weeks were really hot, it didn't rain once and actually reached 102 degrees. Since Tuesday it has rained everyday, and i don't mean the usual afternoon shower. Today it has only stopped raining on and off for about 1-2 hours. The forecast is bad up until next thursday so far, which is the day we leave.
I'm a bit gutted as i have spent a fortune on booking a dolphin swim for tomorrow in Discovery Cove and cannot get a refund and they only postpone if there is lightening!
The weather hasn't stopped us doing stuff but it's not the same in the rain.
Hopefully by the time you arrive next week the bad weather will be coming to an end.

 

[BONZO]

It's a real shame but technically it's now the start of the Hurricane Season

 

[anabella]

it is a great site!

 

[disney13]

Wow, great site. Shame I have to get back to work!!

Thanks,
Andy

 

[Cyrano]

Bookmarked the webcam site for future reference, thanks

Reid

 

[snookhams]

We watched with dismay an item on GMTV this morning talking about Punta Grode (i hope that I spelt it right) and how some people were still living in mobile homes following last years hurricanes, and how there insurance companies qouldn't pay out and those that did will not insure them this year!!! Well at the start of this section they said that this years hurricane season that started officially 1st June is expected to be a lot worse than last with at least 8 hurricanes hitting landfall somewhere in the Florida panhandle. Speaking as someone who rode out charley hiding in a closet, I really hope and pray that I never ever experience anything like this again, but got straight onto the insurance company, whose underwriters have changed (they would not help us last year-at all, nor would the British consolate despite having no power for 5 days at the rented villa, no use of pool but worse of all no cups of tea), to be told that we would be immediatly moved to a hotel should this happen to us again this year. So I can relax a bit knowing that I have done everything that I can. And a bit of rain I can live with, after all doesn't it do that all the time here anyway, It will be home away from home but with Mickey and family thrown in for good measure!!!

 

[ChrisTUK]

At least 8 hitting the U.S????

I think they were a little inaccurate there as the general prediction for the 2005 season is: -

13-15 storms
7-8 becoming hurricanes
1-3 becoming intense hurricanes
A relatively high chance of 1-2 making landfall on continental U.S and the Caribbean.

8 landfalls would be a huge amount for one season, last years 4 was unprecedented with experts not expecting anything like that for quite some time.

Fingers crossed for NO land falls this year.

 

[gilld]

Well at the start of this section they said that this years hurricane season that started officially 1st June is expected to be a lot worse than last with at least 8 hurricanes hitting landfall somewhere in the Florida panhandle.

I saw this and it sounded to me that they were saying they expected 8 of the storms to reach hurricane strength, not that all 8 would hit Florida. I may have been wrong, but that's how DH and I read it.

 

[disneyholic family]

there's no question that Orlando has pretty hideous weather...
but forget it...nobody goes for the weather....they go for the mouse...
and the mouse is lots of fun, rain or shine...and even in hurricanes...
but anyone going in july should prepare for hellfire and brimstone.....well, no....that's actually las vegas in july....orlando's more like a hint of noah's ark on a daily basis....i have never seen the sky open quite the way it does in orlando....nor the lightning strikes.....amazing to watch if you're viewing from some place safe.......

 

[flakey]

there's no question that Orlando has pretty hideous weather...
but forget it...nobody goes for the weather....they go for the mouse...
and the mouse is lots of fun, rain or shine...and even in hurricanes...
but anyone going in july should prepare for hellfire and brimstone.....well, no....that's actually las vegas in july....orlando's more like a hint of noah's ark on a daily basis....i have never seen the sky open quite the way it does in orlando....nor the lightning strikes.....amazing to watch if you're viewing from some place safe.......

Dunno about that! you can see MM at Paris, it is the sunshine that makes the diffrence imo, saying that we got hit by, Charley, francis, and a tropical storm, wet & windy like a saturday night
I love the way the florida folk buy all the ply wood up!!! like they did,nt expect hurricanes to come their way!

 

[Miffy2003]

I have to say, I enjoy the Orlando weather (my trips have been in August x 3 and September x 1 and December x 1)

Yes it is extremely hot but I can live with that with careful air conditioning stops and judicious use of the swimming pool.

I have also been to Disneyland Paris and love it there but went in Febraury when it was very cold and I'll take August's heat any day

In December we did not have much sunshine and the trip was not the same. For me, part of going to Orlando is to enjoy the sunshine.

 

[Richard Bruvofetc]

Excellent link.....

....just dream for 10 months looking at the "live" pictures.

 

[disneyholic family]

If not for WDW (and the rest of the tourist stuff that followed in its wake), central Florida would have nothing going for it. There would have been no reason in the world to ever go there. It is one big swamp. Who goes to a swamp as a resort (i mean before WDW was built there).

Florida, other than the coastlines, is also one of the ugliest states in the union. And since central florida, last time I looked, doesn't have a coast, it would have continued to live in total anonymity, if Walt hadn't bought up the land for chump change.

Swampland. That's where you're headed.

 

[JohnnySharp2]

I have to say, I enjoy the Orlando weather (my trips have been in August x 3 and September x 1 and December x 1)

Yes it is extremely hot but I can live with that with careful air conditioning stops and judicious use of the swimming pool.

I have also been to Disneyland Paris and love it there but went in Febraury when it was very cold and I'll take August's heat any day

In December we did not have much sunshine and the trip was not the same. For me, part of going to Orlando is to enjoy the sunshine.

I agree, we are going twice this year March and August - in March we were really dissapointed with the weather, some days the temperature wasn't reaching 60 degrees in the mornings. Thats about 15 degrees below the average. It was genuinely cold at times, the first time this has happened to us.
I am hoping it will be hot in august, however, when you are touring the theme parks we do like it nice and sunny but not blistering - guess we can be too choosy but part of why we love Florida is the nice weather, do not care what the weather is like here at home but whilst on holiday just want the sun to shine.
Does anybody think the weather in Orlando generally is becoming more unpredictable, I certainly do?