When checking weather...

[andrewgh423]

(I put this in this thread cause it says strategies! )

When checking weather for Orlando before your trip, what webstie do you use? And is that site mostly accurate?

 

[sltrawick]

www.weather.com

or

http://www.orlandosentinel.com

 

[BuzzLightYear3]

This one has a 15 day weather forecast. I don't know how accurate it is that far out, but it's fun to look at it and start imagining being there. I've been watching it for our upcoming trip and the forecast changes daily.

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/local_index.asp?nav=home&metric=0&zipcode=32830

 

[sltrawick]

I haven't seen that one before. It was great to see the weather forecast for the 15 days though, since we are leaving in 9 days.

 

[DancingBear]

Not for current weather, but check Weatherbase.com for historical info. I like their format for this info better than weather.com.

 

[DebbieB]

I wouldn't put too much into the 15 day accuweather forecast. I've found it changes frequently and is not accurate until a couple days before. For our trip last month, it originally said high 70's/low 80's about 10 or 15 days out. Great I thought! It ended up being 90+! I find that weather.com is more accurate, they were predicting 88 about 10 days out.

 

[apagano]

DebbieB is right on. It is pointless to look at any weather forecasts beyond 2-3 days. If your trip is in nine days, you are much better off checking out one of the sites with historical weather data rather than forecasts. Don't bother with forecasts until 2-3 days out, at which point just about any weather site will do.

Besides that, once you get into the summer months, you can expect the same weather every day: plan for heat and humidity and be prepared to experience thunderstorms almost every afternoon. Once you figure that out, the forecast becomes irrelevant unless there is a hurricane or something.

 

[sltrawick]

Oh I know, I know....but it's like your "hoping" and "dreaming" so to speak that that is what the weather will be like for the next 15 days. To me, it's all part of the planning and the excitment that comes just before the trip.