Florida - anyone recently travelled home?

[scoobydooby]

Has anyone very recently returned from a holiday in Florida (orlando to be precise)?

We're off in a few weeks time and I know what the weather's usually like at this time of the year, as we've been before. However, checking the BBC Weather site, it's been telling me 'predominant heavy showers' for the past couple of weeks. I know the weather in most places (inlcuding the UK) has gone to pot but can anyone tell me if it really has been nasty weather in Orlando? I can cope with a very heavy downpour each day but I'm hoping there's some sunshine too. I guess I'm hoping someone will tell me that the BBC site is over exaggerating and it's not that bad over there at the moment. :o(

Thanks

[loonytunes]

Orlando in July or August is never good tourist weather and is predominently humid, thunderstorms and clouds, especially late in the afternoon. What has happened in recent weeks will never be a guide to what it will be next week.

[buildersmate]

That is the general trend at this time of year - sunshine in the morning, thunderstorm in the afternoon.

[eyepie]

My boss has just returned from Orlando and says weather was lovely and hot most of the day. Around 3pm every day it would rain for about an hour but that was it.

[Jillius]

We went in August 1999 when they were having a heatwave and it was unbearable. I have never known heat like it. I remember one day there was a very welcome thunderstorm and we just stood out in it getting drenched. People were sheltering everywhere and looking at us as though we were bonkers. It was bliss. Once the sun came back out we were dry within minutes.