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FLORIDA · FEBRUARY · DRY SEASON February is Florida at its most flattering and its most misread. The state is 450 miles tall, and the month pulls it apart: on the same mid-February morning, Key West wakes to an average low of 67.1°F while the Jacksonville gauge that stands in for St. Augustine records 46.1°F, … Read more
FLORIDA · APRIL · DRY SEASON April is the month Florida’s daytime map nearly agrees with itself and its nights refuse to. The 1991-2020 normal high at Miami International is 83.6°F. At the Jacksonville gauge, the long-record station closest to St. Augustine, it is 79.8°F. Under four degrees separate them. After dark the state splits … Read more
FLORIDA · JANUARY · THE DRY SEASON An average January afternoon in Miami reaches 76.2°F. At the Jacksonville International gauge, the long-record station closest to St. Augustine, the same afternoon reaches 65.5°F, and an average January there counts 6.2 nights at or below freezing. Both figures are NOAA normals covering the same thirty years. Florida … Read more
SEPTEMBER · WHERE TO GO · 14 TRIPS COMPARED Pick September and you are choosing between two trips that share nothing but a page of the calendar. Fly to Luxor and you land in 101.6°F afternoons on a month that records 0.00 inches of rain. Fly to El Calafate instead and you pack for 41.6°F … Read more
AUGUST · WHERE TO GO · 14 TRIPS An August vacation splits into two trips that share nothing but a page of the calendar. Fly to Upper Egypt and the afternoon reads 105.0°F, with 0.00 inches of rain for the entire month. Fly to Patagonia the same week and the high is 37.4°F, with 6.2 … Read more
JULY · WHERE TO GO · 14 TRIPS COMPARED Two July trips sit almost seventy degrees apart. Fly to Luxor and you land in 105.1°F afternoons with 0.00 inch of rain in the monthly normal; fly to El Calafate the same week and you pull on a hat at 35.6°F, with 8 hours 31 minutes … Read more
