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FORT LAUDERDALE · SEPTEMBER · 26.1° N September holds the Atlantic off Fort Lauderdale at an average 87.7°F and the air at an average high of 88.3°F, which is as close as this coast comes to swimming in its own bathwater. It is also the month NOAA’s National Hurricane Center marks as the climatological peak … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE · AUGUST · THE MONTH IN NUMBERS Ninety degrees by day, 77.9°F at night, 7.89 inches of rain, and ocean water at 88.2°F. That is August in Fort Lauderdale in four figures, three of them from NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals and one from a decade of marine readings. The month asks for an early … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE · JULY · BROWARD COUNTY July gives Fort Lauderdale an average high of 90.0°F, an average low of 77.6°F and sea water off the beach averaging 88.1°F. Measurable rain falls on about 10.6 days, though the month’s 5.41 inches is well under June’s 9.55. On July 15 the sun is up for 13 … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE · JUNE · THE MONTH GUIDE June 1 carries two openings in South Florida: the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, and the first day of the wettest of the three early-summer months. The airport gauge collects 9.55 inches in an average June against 5.56 in May. The ocean, by then, has … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE · FLORIDA · MAY Rain almost doubles between April and May in Fort Lauderdale, from 3.02 inches to 5.56. Over the same four weeks the ocean warms from 79.7°F to 83.1°F, and the Atlantic hurricane season still does not open until June 1. Daylight on May 15 runs 13 hours 29 minutes, with … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE · APRIL · 26.1° N April gives Fort Lauderdale 82.9°F days, 69.9°F nights and 3.02 inches of rain, against the 5.56 inches May drops on the same sand. The Atlantic hurricane season is still six weeks away when the month ends, since it opens June 1. Offshore, the water averages 79.7°F, a degree … Read more
