Ocala Real Estate Talk

October in Ocala is the beginning of our fall. It’s also the beginning of the dry season. You can almost divide our year into 2 seasons. From late May until October we have the wet season. During the wet season we have high humidity every day with afternoon thunderstorms several times a week. The dry season is from October until May. It’s warm but not hot. Not a lot of rain and little or no humidity. October is one of my favorite months. Temperatures in the 80’s but dry and sunny.

July is hot and very humid here in Ocala there’s no getting away from it. Every day it’s in the high 70’s at 6 am and very humid. By afternoon expect the lower 90’s and still really humid. We get afternoon thunderstorms 3 or 4 times a week. They don’t cool things down much.

July is hurricane season. So far this year and this sounds crazy huge dust storms are blowing out of the Sahara desert in Africa. This air born sand and dust keeps hurricanes from forming in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans. Hopefully this will continue and we will have a  uneventful season.

It’s been a warmer and dryer than usual spring. I’ve had to turn on my AC more than past years. It’s also been really dry with almost no rain until the end of April. April here in Ocala is a great month. Temperatures in the 80’s with little or no humidity and sunny almost every day. It’s almost May. May is a transition month from dry weather to humid weather starting near the end of the month. The humidity is a small price to pay for no snow or ice.

Christmas was exceptionally warm here in Ocala with temperature in the high 70’s and low 80’s.

January is our winter month. February is winter too but it starts to warm up by the end of the month and March is spring. Winter is a series of cold fronts. The temperature will be in the 70’s then a cold front will come through and the day time temps will drop to the 60’s or even high 50’s for a couple of days. Then we arm back up until the next cold front. We can get a frost or two and every few years a freeze. The winter is the dry season with little rain and no humidity.

If you don’t love the winter like I do then move to Ocala ! The hot humid summers are a small price to pay for no snow and ice.

October was a really warm month. Many days being 10 degrees above normal and the humidity persisted on and off until the end of the month. That’s too bad because I look forward to the cooler drier weather of our fall.

November is supposed to be in the high 70’s with no humidity. Let’s hope that’s the case this year. I like those months where I’m not paying the AC bill or needing heat.