temperature question may-june

[FOXFIELDZOO]

When does it start to really get hot down at wdw.
Planning next year trip, how's end of may, begining of june???
Thanks

 

[hakepb]

We will not do summer at WDW (refuse to deal with that much heat) but do enjoy late May/early June trips. Temps can be 80's/90's as highs. I really enjoy it because it means shorts/t-shirt all day, no layers /long stuff to bother with..

I do have relatives in the Tampa area and that is about the time they prefer to head up north to stay in their 5th wheel all summer.

I guess if you do not have kids/school to bother with, early May is a little better crowd wise, but I always thought late May still missed most of the school rush.

 

[DebbieB]

It can get hot early in May, I used to go Mother's Day weekend and it was in the low 90's.

 

[drusba]

Hot begins by the time May begins since you get into the high 80s and 90s even then. The real question is during how many of the daylight hours is it uncomfortably hot and that progresses from about 60% to basically all of the daylight hours as May progresses. By end of May beginning of June, it is generally hot all day (high 80s to mid-90s) and the evenings and nights are also very warm and humid (early May you can still get lows in the mid-60s, by end of May the lows are mid 70s). You can sometimes get a respite late May early June such as a "cool" high 70s low 80s day once in a while.

 

[PSC]

Here is a website that will help with your specific question and many more like it:


http://www.wunderground.com/tripplanner/index.asp

It shows a historical record for a start annd end date and provides averages and statistics.

 

[pamjb]

We just got back from WDW. We checked in on June 14 and out on June 22. It was HOT, HOT, HOT. I don't think it went below 95º. Even the water in the quiet pool at Miller's Road at OKW was HOT. The mail pool was a little cooler, but not much.
One bright spot (maybe) was we didn't have much rain. Frankly, I think a little rain would of been welcome.

 

[rlduvall]

We were there this year from May 30th - June 9th. I was just worried about the monsoon type weather they were getting and just hoped it wouldn't rain all the time. Sunday, May 31st, was one of the most beautiful days I have ever had weatherwise there. Pretty warm, but low humidity - absolutely gorgeous. BUT, every day after that got progressively hotter and more humid. It was pretty hot by the end of our trip. I still liked that better than rain, but that's just me.

Of course now, where I live, we are having record breaking temperatures in the 100's already. Heat index today is supposed to be 108.

 

[Terry]

We just got back from a week at SSR on 6/21. Agree with the other poster. It was HOT! 95+ every day and the crowds were larger than we expected. We spent a lot of time indoors in the middle of the day. Went last June as well and swore never to do it again. Can't believe we once lived in O-town! I guess our blood has thinned living in the Chicago area for the last dozen or so years. Still had fun, but, prefer Nov-Dec much more than the summer.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Memorial Day this year was very nice pool weather (it figured, we were picked up for ME at 9AM! Extended family stayed and had a great time!) but we've been there for very hot Memorial weekends. This year we had the hard rains the week before Memorial day, so it wasn't hot but it definitely was too rainy to be a great vacation weather wise.

I've usually had wonderful weather the first week in May and yes, we've been there on a Mother's Day weekend that hit the 90s.

Bobbi

 

[JimC]

When does it start to really get hot down at wdw.
Planning next year trip, how's end of may, begining of june???
Thanks

Is hot when the temperature goes above 90? The average high is above 90 from June 7th to September 18th for WDW.

 

[drusba]

Many from the north who go to Florida May through September for the first time think "Sure, I know it is going to be in the 90s, but I have had 90s at home and it is not that bad." What they don't realize is that those 90s in the north usually mean 90s only for about 4 to 5 hours of the day and night time temps still go back to low to mid-60s. In Florida, you have 90s from 8 in the morning until 8:30 in the evening and then it only falls back late at night to the mid to high 70s. All with high humidity. It is the lack of any relief from the heat even at night that makes it so unbearable. You can sweat standing still outside at midnight.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Many from the north who go to Florida May through September for the first time think "Sure, I know it is going to be in the 90s, but I have had 90s at home and it is not that bad." What they don't realize is that those 90s in the north usually mean 90s only for about 4 to 5 hours of the day and night time temps still go back to low to mid-60s. In Florida, you have 90s from 8 in the morning until 8:30 in the evening and then it only falls back late at night to the mid to high 70s. All with high humidity. It is the lack of any relief from the heat even at night that makes it so unbearable. You can sweat standing still outside at midnight.

This is sooo true!! September was soooo brutally hot, I don't think I can go back again then unless its a non-park trip. Even then, there is noooo relief at night! The first week of June this year was very pleasant at night...I would probably not go back any later in June unless I was at the beach. Its so hard to navigate the heat and humidity, it seems like its ever changing, even in Florida.

 

[BEASLYBOO]

For the last 10 years, we've gone to Disney for 7 days the first week after our schools let out, therefore typically anywhere from the 4th-14th. During this period crowds are still manageable because northern schools haven't let out and the true summer heat hasn't set in yet. It's still warm during this early June but the high humidity hasn't set in yet and this year was just like that and the crowds were way down compared to last year.

Now, you can read all of the archived weather info, but nothing prepared people for the heat wave FLA just had, nor the early rain in May. At home, from Fri-Mon we broke record highs in many cities and counties, and finally we've had enough rain in the last 2 days to bring things back to the normal summer heat, it's been unbearable.

Late June, July and Aug are brutal, but you should be able to count on mid day storms to cool things off a bit, but the humidity will be a toughy!

I live in Florida so we have no choice but to endure. We love Disney which is why we bought into DVC, even if we're only 2 1/2hours away, we do EMH both am/pm, we work the Fastpass and we don't stay in the parks (unless it's TL day) between 12-4pm. I wish we could vacation in May maybe when he's in college!