I am supposed to be going to Orlando next week - Sun-Tue - for a short golf trip. Any local advice would be greatly appreciated. It looks like Hurricane Dennis should be well west of Orlando, but the weather still looks lousy - t-storms every day. Is that the usual Orlando summer weather (ie. storm for an hour in late afternoon) or do they expect it to be raining all day?

There may still be enough time to cancel the trip. Do any locals have some thoughts or advice?

aari5--I don't live in Orlando, but on our last visit there, I noticed that there were t-storm warnings for several days that we were there and we never saw any. They were scattered and, according to news reports, late afternoon and short-lived. I THINK this is typical of FL summer weather. Hope this helps.

I live there, or here rather....the weather outside my door the last few weeks has been beginning in upper 70's, then 80's around noon, then hitting the peak in the 90's about 4-6pm, and it's sunny til almost 9pm...It rains for maybe 30 min-1 hour in the afternoon generally 2-5 pm on average...we have had worse, but that is pretty much my average day....

So, it doesn't sound like they are expecting unusually rainy weather next week as a result of teh potential hurricane, or anyhting else? Thanks.

Adam

All the maps I see have the storms going right by us affecting the Gulf of Mexico...another one may creep up, but for us here, it is NOTHING like last year when 3 hurricanes hit us..this is bliss in comparison...I would just look at weather.com and check the 10 day forecast for Orlando...anything with %of rain is normal....the heat is a bigger problem than rain in my opinion...but everything is in bloom !

weather.com shows chance of rain at 60, 30 & 40%. Normal?

yes, it rains almost daily, that is normal to see 30-60% chance of rain for June and July in Florida.

Great. Thanks so much.

Adam

This afternoon, as we first started seeing some of effects of Dennis, we had weather advisories for excessive lightning in Lake County (on the west side of Orlando). Just the normal amount of rain (yeah, every day pretty much is normal), but too much lightning to go outside. We're supposed to start getting the storms after midnight tonight, and Saturday-Sunday should be the worst. Once everything passes, you should have beautiful weather. This time of year around here, it is miserably humid, hot, stormy, and chock full of mosquitoes and various and sundry bugs. It all evens out in the winter, when we sit around in our shorts by the pool and talk to our poor friends caught in blizzards up north. Really, it's often worse up north, where the air doesn't move. We do get some good air circulation across the state...