Temp in January?

[shelliesv]

Well, we may have to cancel our trip in 10 days because my grandmother is very, very sick. They just put her in a hospice home today so we are preparing for the worst anyday.

Now, I am faced with when to reschedule for. I wonder if it's better to go the week of December 9th or January 14th? If we go in January, what is the weather like? If you had to choose one week, which one would you take?

 

[Robo]

Weather is unpredictable.

Either week can be cold or warm.

In December or January...

We have learned to EXPECT ANYTHING as the weather goes in off-season Orlando.
We always pack winter and summer-wear.
In Dec/Jan/Feb we have even worn LONG THERMAL UNDERWEAR (after sundown)... we now pack it for any off-season trip.

Typical day:

Cool outside at 7am.
Wear shorts and Tee's.
Over that add a thin nylon wind-breaker
We put our "chilly-wear" and RAIN ponchos in a back-pack.
(Rain ponchos are REALLY cheap in hunting section of discount retailers.
You can buy BIG THICK ones to allow covering large jackets... more later.)

"Chilly-wear" is a nylon cotton-lined warm-up suit with zipper legs and a cotton-lined windbreaker.
We buy OVER-sized in these so they can easily be put on OVER other clothing.
After standing in the sometimes chilly "early-entry" lines we can usually take off the wind-breakers.
We always rent a locker at the park(s) and leave our "chilly-wear" in the locker 'til sun-down.
If it looks like rain (in Florida? Who'da thunk?) we take the Ponchos.

Much later, if its a warm night, we're just fine in the shorts.
If it turns windy/cool... we can visit the locker and choose which level of "chilly" OVER-WEAR to add to our clothing.

If it turns really COLD (windy 30's-40's not unheard-of at certain times of the year) we can make a restroom trip and slide-on the long underwear... OR... we can even add the final outer-layer of the RAIN ponchos (with their HOODS)... OVER everything else.
That trick (along with ear-muffs and gloves) has allowed us to "comfortably" stay and enjoy Fantasmic! or IllumiNations when others (less-prepared) have been "frozen-out."

 

[Pacha]

Don't know about Dec weather, but Jan weather can be either hot or cold. On our first trip in jan they had above norm temps..50's for lows and 80's for highs. It was great !!! Two years later when we went again in Jan, they were having below norm temps...20's for lows and 40'-50's for highs. So you never know. Having said that, we still enjoyed it even with the colder temps as the lines were short.