Most of the country looks forward to the spring season to see the snow melt, flowers bloom, and feel the warmer temperatures. Here in Central Florida, we are pretty warm year-round.
It is this time of the year that we just don’t warm up, but we start to heat up.
We’re approaching the average start date of 90-degree weather, which in Orlando is April 9.
Melbourne, Sanford, and Orlando’s first 90 normally comes in early April. While Daytona Beach and Leesburg’s first comes in late April.
There is the possibility that we could feel our first 90-degree day before April.
In fact, in 2020 Orlando’s first 90-degree day was March 4. Orlando went on to have nine 90-degree days last March.
The earliest 90-degree on record in the City Beautiful is February 15, 1935.
Over the past six years, four of the first 90-degree days have occurred in March.
In 2019 and 2018, the first came in the early to the middle part of April.
2010 was the last time that Orlando did not hit 90 before the start of May. That year it was May 1.
The latest 90-degree day for the city was June 2, 1931.
Orlando averages 97 90-degree days per year.
In 2019 and 2020, there were more than 130 days spent in the 90s. The most on the record is 152 in 1919.
The last time there were fewer than 100 days was in 2008. This is when there were only 88.
The month with the most 90-degree days on average in Orlando is in August. It is just ahead of July.
So get ready, it will be another long stretch of the 90s likely this summer. The average high of Orlando hits 90 degrees on May 25 and it does not fall below 90 until September 18.
This is when it takes a small drop-down to 89 degrees.