The Travel Chronicle

FORT LAUDERDALE · MARCH · 26.1° N March is the month Fort Lauderdale’s water catches up with its air. The NOAA normal high is 79.7°F, the sea off the beach averages 78.6°F, and the gap between standing on the sand and standing in the Atlantic comes down to about one degree. Rain totals 2.38 inches … Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE · FEBRUARY · DRY SEASON February gives Fort Lauderdale a 77.4°F afternoon and a 63.3°F night, and it does it on 2.38 inches of rain spread across the whole month. The Atlantic off the beach averages 77.5°F. Warm water plus dry air is the combination the Florida winter was built to sell, and … Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE · JANUARY · BROWARD COUNTY An average January afternoon in Fort Lauderdale reaches 75.6°F, and the water offshore reads 77.6°F, warmer than the air above it. Measurable rain shows up on 3.8 days in a typical month. The Atlantic hurricane season closed on November 30, so nothing in the winter forecast is a … Read more

CLEARWATER · DECEMBER · 27.98° N Clearwater in December runs on a 72.8°F afternoon and a 65.5°F Gulf. That pairing is warm enough for a full day outdoors and cool enough that the water gets a debate before anyone walks into it. The holiday weeks fill the beachfront hotels and the first three weeks do … Read more

CLEARWATER · FLORIDA · NOVEMBER November is the month Clearwater’s air drops and the Gulf refuses to follow at the same speed. The NOAA normal high for the month is 77.2°F, about seven degrees under October, while the sea off the beach still averages 73.5°F. Overnight the normal low is 60.9°F, which is the first … Read more

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA · OCTOBER · THE DATED GUIDE Clearwater’s October reads like this: an average high of 84.2°F, an average low of 69.7°F and 2.49 inches of rain for the whole month, against 6.40 inches in September. Those are NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals. The Gulf lags the calendar, and sea surface off the beach still averages … Read more