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CLEARWATER · JANUARY · 27.9° N Clearwater’s January averages a high of 70.6°F and a low of 52.5°F, with 2.62 inches of rain falling across four or five wet days. That is the frame a winter week here is built on: shirtsleeve afternoons on the sand, a fleece by six, and a Gulf sitting at … Read more
CLEARWATER · SEPTEMBER · 27.98° N September is the month the Gulf off Clearwater stops being refreshing and starts being warm: 86.8°F in the marine record, against afternoons that normally reach 88.9°F. Rain arrives in loud, short installments, 6.40 inches of it spread across the month, and the beach day survives most of them. It … Read more
CLEARWATER · FLORIDA · AUGUST The Gulf off Clearwater averages 89.3°F in August, and the air above it carries an average high of 90.6°F. Those two numbers describe the month. You walk into the water without flinching at any hour, and you stay out of the sun for the middle of the day. Rain shows … Read more
CLEARWATER · FLORIDA · JULY July hands Clearwater the warmest Gulf water of its summer, 89.9°F, and light on the sand until 8:30 p.m. It charges for both with 90.3°F afternoons and 9.73 inches of rain, more than June or August collect. Two decisions carry a July trip here: how you spend the hours between … Read more
CLEARWATER · MAY · GULF COAST Clearwater’s May normal is an average high of 87.1°F, an average low of 69.8°F and 2.73 inches of rain for the whole month. The water off the beach averages 82.5°F. Four weeks later, June’s normal rainfall is 8.86 inches, more than triple, spread across 10.7 wet days instead of … Read more
CLEARWATER · JUNE · GULF COAST June turns the Gulf off Clearwater into a bath. The sea surface averages 86.3°F, warmer than the air at dawn, and the light stretches to 13 hours 57 minutes on June 15, with the sun going down at 8:30 p.m. local time. The month also triples the rain: 8.86 … Read more
