Weather September/October

Hailz · 24 Feb 18, 05:27 PM

Just wondering what the weather is like in September/October.

Thinking of booking either last week September/1st week October or Mid October.

Only been once before and it was in July x

lcm23 · 24 Feb 18, 06:08 PM

Hope it�s good as we�ve just booked15 nights from 28 Sept. historical forecasts show its good weather, generally very warm with some but not a lot of rain (unless we�re unlucky and there�s a hurricane!). We�ve been once before for first 2 weeks in Nov and it was shorts and vest weather for the 2 weeks with no rain and just a cardigan/light jacket for evening.

7SeasSailor · 24 Feb 18, 06:10 PM

We have had years when there has been little rain and others when its been torrential.

Kd0758 · 24 Feb 18, 06:27 PM

Our only experience was last year 27th September until 8th October and when it was hot it was really hot but when it rained I was so cold! It rained a lot while we were there and we had a few days where it was rain all day.

Some of the rain was torrential and I actually wore my jeans to AK one day.

ianc · 24 Feb 18, 06:41 PM

The Dibb guidebook tells you that, on average, Sept is part of the wet season with almost as much rain as June/July/Aug (6 inches and therefore double what London gets) and almost the same temperatures (90 deg). Your dates are the dates when Hurricane Matthew hit 2 years ago - there are weather systems like that forming in the Atlantic every approx. 2 weeks, but the winds are not necessarily hurricane force (could be just a storm or depression) and it is pot luck that it goes towards Orlando rather than somewhere else. If you get one of the depressions, you could have rain on/off for a day or two, but otherwise it tends to be a very heavy downpour around late afternoon for half an hour. Unlike the UK, you tend not to get drizzle for hours - it just chucks it down then clears up.

Hailz · 25 Feb 18, 09:08 AM

Thanks everyone.

Just trying to decide when best time to go as can't decide between my above dates or July.

Clamshell · 25 Feb 18, 09:48 AM

The last two times we have been we have done the last week of September and the first week of October. It�s normally hot, and rains every day at about 4 for about half an hour. Occasionally we had an evening that rained for a bit longer.

Couldn�t have been that bad - we are doing it again this year!

One warning though - there is a chance of hurricanes

24 Feb 18, 06:41 PM	#5
	24 Feb 18, 06:41 PM ianc Apprentice Imagineer
ianc Apprentice Imagineer Join Date: Jun 10	The Dibb guidebook tells you that, on average, Sept is part of the wet season with almost as much rain as June/July/Aug (6 inches and therefore double what London gets) and almost the same temperatures (90 deg). Your dates are the dates when Hurricane Matthew hit 2 years ago - there are weather systems like that forming in the Atlantic every approx. 2 weeks, but the winds are not necessarily hurricane force (could be just a storm or depression) and it is pot luck that it goes towards Orlando rather than somewhere else. If you get one of the depressions, you could have rain on/off for a day or two, but otherwise it tends to be a very heavy downpour around late afternoon for half an hour. Unlike the UK, you tend not to get drizzle for hours - it just chucks it down then clears up.