Central Florida felt more like South Texas during heatwave

ORLANDO, Fla. – Central Florida is clearly no stranger to warmth, particularly in June. Over the previous 11 days nevertheless, most of the time, the warmth hasn’t been Central Florida-like.

For the 11-day stretch from June 14 via the twenty fourth, the place the temperatures routinely flirted with information, Central Florida felt extra like south Central Texas. With a median excessive temperature of practically 96 levels and a median low of 74, Orlando was extra like San Antonio from a local weather perspective.

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The opposite element was the abnormally dry climate for the center of June. At instances it felt extra like a dry warmth than the soupy air Floridians are accustomed to in summer time.

From the identical time interval, Orlando Worldwide Airport solely measured 1.83 inches of rain, or 1.25 inches beneath regular. 1.42 inches of that rain fell in in the future.

The final two days of the heatwave had been essentially the most excessive. Daytona Seashore soared to 101°, reaching 100° or hotter for the primary time since 1999. Orlando reached 99° on again to again days, which hadn’t occurred since July of 1998.

1998 was an especially brutal yr for warmth, drought and wildfires throughout the Sunshine State. There was a five-day streak and one other four-day streak of days reaching 99° or hotter that yr.

The ultimate two days of the new stretch had Central Florida feeling extra like El Paso, Texas, which averages 98° and 72° for its excessive and low respectively this time of the yr.

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For the month to this point, this June presently ranks the fifth hottest of all time for Orlando.