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FLORIDA · BLUE SPRING · USGS 02235500 The water at Blue Spring makes you inhale before you swim. The USGS gauge in the run read 74.3 °F (23.5 °C) on September 11, 2026, cool enough to catch your breath on a Florida afternoon and never cold enough to send you back to the towel. Below … Read more
WEKIWA SPRINGS · THE ORLANDO SPRING · APOPKA, FLORIDA Step off the sand at Wekiwa Springs and the water takes your breath for about two seconds. The USGS gauge in the spring, station 02234600, was reading 75.6 °F (24.2 °C) on 11 September 2026, and it reads close to that number in February too. Springs … Read more
FLORIDA SPRINGS · THE NORTHERN HALF · 73.4°F ALL YEAR Wade into a Florida spring on a 95°F August afternoon and the first sound you make is not a word. The water is 73.4°F (23.0°C), the median the U.S. Geological Survey was reading across its monitored Florida spring sites on September 11, 2026. It was … Read more
ORLANDO · FLORIDA · NOVEMBER November takes 6.4°F off the Orlando afternoon. The average high drops from October’s 84.7°F to 78.3°F, the average low from 66.2°F to 58.2°F, and the rain total falls from 3.46 inches to 1.79. Those are NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals for the station at Orlando International Airport, and they describe a month … Read more
ORLANDO · OCTOBER · 28.4° N Orlando’s October runs 84.7°F by day and 66.2°F by night, with 3.46 inches of rain across the month. September brought 6.37 inches to the same rain gauge. That one comparison is most of the case for shifting a Florida vacation four weeks later: the same theme parks, the same … Read more
ORLANDO · SEPTEMBER · 28.4° N September is the month Orlando starts coming down off the summer. The NOAA station at Orlando International averages a high of 89.6°F and a low of 72.4°F for the month, two degrees cooler at the top than August, with 6.37 inches of rain falling across it. Underneath those numbers … Read more
