It's official

Here it is, the time has come to officially start planning our trip. Obviously the very first step in this process is deciding where you want to travel to. I think it’s already quite clear that we want to go to Florida, USA so we’ve decided not to devote an entire blogpost to the matter of choosing locations for your holiday. It’s such a personal choice anyway. 

Well, look at us, we’ve barely started and we’re already skipping steps. Maybe this is why we’re so bad at planning things..

Anywho, our first step was choosing when exactly we want to go on vacation so that’s what we’ll review this week.

There are three main things that we considered whilst making our choice: temperature and overall climate, school holidays, and peak seasons. Today we take a closer look at the climate and temperature in the Sunshine State. 

Temperature & climate

Since there’s a subtropical to tropical climate in Florida, they know of three other kinds of seasons besides the ‘regular’ ones: rainy season, dry season, and hurricane season.

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Rainy season coincides for the most part with summer/fall and runs approximately from May till October. By the end of this season, around August and September, the chances of tropical cyclones are biggest. That’s why this time is also referred to as hurricane season, so unless you’re a professional stormchaser this doesn’t seem like the perfect time to visit Florida.

Lastly there’s the dry season. This coincides mostly with winter/spring, so roughly from November till May. Dry season brings with it –as its name may suggest- less rain but the heat and humidity are also more moderate then during rainy and hurricane season (Thanks Wikipedia). 

Florida ain’t called the Sunshine State for nothin’ so with all those hours of sun (3154 to be exact) it might be a good idea to check the average temperatures.

During summer and fall temperatures average around 30°C, or 86°F. An important side note here is that the humidity will often make the apparent air temperature feel a lot higher so it probably won’t take much to break a sweat. Come dry season, temperatures fall slightly but are still very much enjoyable averaging at around 23,5°C or 74,3°F (Wikipedia).

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Being the pasty Belgian that I am, I don’t cope well with extreme heat and/or humidity and we have our own fair share of rain throughout the year. Choosing a time for our vacation therefore wasn’t that difficult: definitely winter/spring. And since we both already have two obligatory days off in November, we decided to take our trip around that time.  

Voila, that’s all we have for you right now. We’ll be posting regularly from now on, every Tuesday and Thursday so be sure to check back here on Tuesday for more info on school holidays and peak seasons in Florida.

R & B