Florida weather

I know it’s storm season, we’ve been in August before and you can normally set your watch by the afternoon storms but come on ffs…



It’s forecast like this from morning till night every night that we’re there. Can’t wait

 

If its any consolation JD , the forecast was crap for us last week, but it turned out to be lovely!

 

Thanks, that does help. I know the storms are normally intense and pass quite quickly, and we were expecting them daily in the afternoons, but I wasn’t expecting to see them forecast the entire day every day! Glad you got good weather.

 

Florida!!! It's one hell of a drug.

 

I was there for two weeks at the start of the school holidays. We had extensive storms 12 out of 14 days. Parks shut, roads ground to a halt - never known it as bad.

 

way to cheer the lass up Toby!

 

Jump in a hire car, head north and keep going until the weather improves. Drive back south to go home. Sorted.

 

Well, bleep. What did you do?

 

We have actually hired a car this time. I’m not sure that’s much of a comfort though to be honest, last time we were there we were in a taxi one of the days when the rain came down and I genuinely don’t know how he got us back to the hotel. I was sat in the passenger seat and couldn’t see a thing out of the window the whole journey. We ended up tipping him $20 for getting us back safe.

 

It's always a bit of a downer when the forecasts not good but hopefully it's not too bad and you have a great holiday.
We went to Dubrovnik last year and the forecast was horrible but it ended up being lovely weather so you never know JD.

 

We were there a few weeks ago @JamDrop and it was scorching - too hot on so me days tbh. We did have a couple of heavy storms in the last few days and wow - it really comes down! It's generally ok as yo dry pretty quickly afterwards, except for footwear. I wore trainers and they weren't properly dry until the following day. My tip - lots of people wear Crocs in the parks and I know understand why - so what if your feet get wet.

 

I've been twice. Both times (May and November) have seen rainstorms so bad that we had to stop at the side of the road and wait for it to stop before we could continue. By heading north, I meant Georgia or the Carolinas. Its a long drive, but the weather won't be enough to give you trench foot every time you leave the hotel. Its either that or just wear your swimming costumes all the time - you'd be dressed for the weather!

At least you aren't going to Tokyo, which is effectively going to be closed for the next couple of days due to a typhoon! (no flights or bullet trains in or out). When we were there last month, 100s were taken to hospital every day for heatstroke!

 

Yeah, I generally take a pair of flip flops to change into once the rain starts, soggy trainers are no fun!

 

Wow, that’s awful.

I blame Will, we tend to go in May but he insisted on August! It’ll be our anniversary whilst out there and we’ve booked a fancy suite so at least if we’re cooped up it’ll be somewhere nice.

 

Everyones mentioned the weather and you know yourself how bad it can get. Luckily been twice and had the odd massive thunderstorm. But great weather otherwise.
My main point. You've hired a car. If it's the first time. it's far easier than europe. Drove both times, a 7 then a 12 seater. No roundabouts, Just crossroads and can turn right even on red unless it specifically tells you, you can't. Usually a feeder lane to turn right in the busy areas to be treat like a give way. Wish we had a similar system over here.

 

Irony overload. Fly to the other side of the world for a holiday then wonder why the climate's changing so that it spoils said holiday.

 

We hired one just for a day last day to go the Invictus Games that were on there. We were the only Brits there, I reckon Prince Harry (who was there for the closing ceremony) should have come over to say hi!

 

Like you say storm season Only Brits go to Florida in August

 

Irony overload from the guy who takes flight to Belfast and back and has flown all over the world for work. Alright when you do it though?

 

I’m limited to school holiday dates. It’s Christmas, Easter or August, no choice in the matter.