Swimming weather in December??

[khgreen]

You can most likely swim in December. I think kids will swim in a heated pool no matter what the weather is. Like the others have said I've been hot in December at Disney and I remember a year when it froze and many of the flowers at the parks died (but I still think I took off my sweater by the middle of the afternoon).

 

[Mom3girls]

Sounds as though early morning we would be cold. Not early risers so that would be a reason to take our time we do like to stay out til park closing but like everyone has said, staying at RPR it's only a 6 min walk back to the resort to get changed into warmer clothes. We will be traveling with three teenagers so that part is easy. Guess we will hope for the best and hopefully get to use the pool midday. We are only an hour away from the beach at home and usually vacation mid summer so we are used to swimming daily at the beach or our Disney/universal vacays.

 

[saskdw]

I remember that year. Our trip went into November.......our last day we went early to drop our hold luggage off at DTD with Virgin and we stepped out of the RPR and it was freezing! Really cold.

All the VA staff had coats, hats and gloves on when we go there........I was shivering in a thin top......one of them brought me out a blanket while we waited........lol........just didn't expect it. That was a cold winter for Orlando.

The morning we left (Dec. 28th) it was 26 F!!

The next year we were there for the same 2 weeks and they had a record setting heat wave. It hit 90 a couple days and never did cool down overnight. We were sitting by the quiet pool most nights at CSR (WDW) and at 11pm it was still 75 most nights. That went on the entire 2 weeks.

 

[saskdw]

Sounds as though early morning we would be cold. Not early risers so that would be a reason to take our time we do like to stay out til park closing but like everyone has said, staying at RPR it's only a 6 min walk back to the resort to get changed into warmer clothes. We will be traveling with three teenagers so that part is easy. Guess we will hope for the best and hopefully get to use the pool midday. We are only an hour away from the beach at home and usually vacation mid summer so we are used to swimming daily at the beach or our Disney/universal vacays.

We will be in Orlando Dec 8th-20th this year. So we'll be there those dates as well. We did RPR last year so we're doing CSR this year.

 

[go2grl]

We were there in December of 2010, 17th-22nd, and it was chilly and some days it was drizzling, BUT we live close to DC and it was really cold in our area (our original early morning flight was cancelled due to icing) so it was only long-sleeved shirt/light hoodie weather for us, but definitely no swimming. I want to say it was in the 40s and 50s for the majority with our arrival and departure days in the 60s.

 

[GaryDis]

You mentioned accuweather's info. You didn't mention "each morning I looked at the temperature". Just accuweather. And I know for a fact that accueather and weather channel's historical info for December 2010 *now* does not match what was happening in December 2010. So I'm warning people that weather websites' historical data can be off. Go by "been there done that" reports instead.

Do they say precisely where they're getting their measurements?

I know that in Boston, official measurements are often at Logan Airport. Temperatures at Logan, being out by the harbor, can be very different from temperatures in downtown Boston. Granted, MCO isn't by the ocean, but heat inertia in a park can still make it different from an unsheltered weather instrument cluster near an open runway.

 

[macraven]

All major cities are like that

Temps taken at designated places.


For me if I want to swim, if it is hot, I do

If it is not hot, I don't


Numbers mean squat to me

 

[schumigirl]

All major cities are like that

Temps taken at designated places.


For me if I want to swim, if it is hot, I do

If it is not hot, I don't


Numbers mean squat to me

Yep, me too..........for example we were supposed to have torrential rain today......was beautiful........I generally look out the window to see what the weather is or stick my head outside.........very rarely wrong!