Spring Weather in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida, United StatesDaily high temperatures increase by 16°F, from 69°F to 85°F, rarely falling below 58°F or exceeding 91°F. Daily low temperatures increase by 18°F, from 53°F to 71°F, rarely falling below 41°F or exceeding 75°F. For reference, on July 22, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Ponte Vedra Beach typically range from 75°F to 89°F, while on January 17, the coldest day of the year, they range from 48°F to 64°F. The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average spring temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day. Benghazi, Libya (5,739 miles away) and Sīdī Sālim, Egypt (6,294 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Ponte Vedra Beach (view comparison). CloudsThe spring in Ponte Vedra Beach experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 41% throughout the season. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 35% on April 30. The clearest day of the spring is April 30, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 65% of the time. For reference, on July 11, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 63%, while on October 26, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 66%. PrecipitationA wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Ponte Vedra Beach, the chance of a wet day over the course of the spring is very rapidly increasing, starting the season at 26% and ending it at 37%. For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 57% on August 13, and its lowest chance is 18% on November 21. RainfallTo show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day. The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the spring in Ponte Vedra Beach is essentially constant, remaining about 2.9 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 7.0 inches or falling below 0.5 inches. The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 2.2 inches on May 4. SunOver the course of the spring in Ponte Vedra Beach, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 2 hours, 24 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 1 minute, 35 seconds, and weekly increase of 11 minutes, 5 seconds. The shortest day of the spring is March 1, with 11 hours, 34 minutes of daylight and the longest day is May 31, with 13 hours, 58 minutes of daylight. The latest sunrise of the spring in Ponte Vedra Beach is 7:40 AM on March 10 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 16 minutes earlier at 6:24 AM on May 31. The earliest sunset is 6:24 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 58 minutes later at 8:22 PM on May 31. Daylight saving time (DST) starts at 3:00 AM on March 10, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour later. For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:24 AM and sets 14 hours, 6 minutes later, at 8:30 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:18 AM and sets 10 hours, 12 minutes later, at 5:29 PM. The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation. MoonThe figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the spring of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon. HumidityWe base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night. The chance that a given day will be muggy in Ponte Vedra Beach is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising from 4% to 77% over the course of the season. For reference, on August 2, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 100% of the time, while on January 29, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 2% of the time. WindThis section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages. The average hourly wind speed in Ponte Vedra Beach is decreasing during the spring, decreasing from 9.3 miles per hour to 8.0 miles per hour over the course of the season. For reference, on January 29, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 9.6 miles per hour, while on August 3, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.8 miles per hour. The wind direction in Ponte Vedra Beach during the spring is predominantly out of the west from March 1 to March 21, the south from March 21 to March 29 and from April 6 to April 15, and the east from March 29 to April 6 and from April 15 to May 31. Water TemperaturePonte Vedra Beach is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water. The average surface water temperature in Ponte Vedra Beach is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 13°F, from 65°F to 78°F, over the course of the season. Growing SeasonDefinitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere). The growing season in Ponte Vedra Beach typically lasts for 11 months (341 days), from around January 26 to around January 1, rarely starting after February 28, or ending before December 13. The spring in Ponte Vedra Beach is very likely fully within the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season gradually increasing from 92% to 100% over the course of the season. Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F. The average accumulated growing degree days in Ponte Vedra Beach are very rapidly increasing during the spring, increasing by 1,703°F, from 482°F to 2,185°F, over the course of the season. Solar EnergyThis section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation. The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Ponte Vedra Beach is rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 1.6 kWh, from 4.8 kWh to 6.4 kWh, over the course of the season. The highest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during the spring is 6.8 kWh on May 13. TopographyFor the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Ponte Vedra Beach are 30.240 deg latitude, -81.386 deg longitude, and 13 ft elevation. The topography within 2 miles of Ponte Vedra Beach is essentially flat, with a maximum elevation change of 16 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 4 feet. Within 10 miles is also essentially flat (69 feet). Within 50 miles is essentially flat (285 feet). The area within 2 miles of Ponte Vedra Beach is covered by artificial surfaces (52%) and water (35%), within 10 miles by water (47%) and artificial surfaces (23%), and within 50 miles by water (50%) and trees (23%). Data SourcesThis report illustrates the typical weather in Ponte Vedra Beach, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016. Temperature and Dew PointThere are 3 weather stations near enough to contribute to our estimation of the temperature and dew point in Ponte Vedra Beach. For each station, the records are corrected for the elevation difference between that station and Ponte Vedra Beach according to the International Standard Atmosphere , and by the relative change present in the MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis between the two locations. The estimated value at Ponte Vedra Beach is computed as the weighted average of the individual contributions from each station, with weights proportional to the inverse of the distance between Ponte Vedra Beach and a given station. The stations contributing to this reconstruction are:
To get a sense of how much these sources agree with each other, you can view a comparison of Ponte Vedra Beach and the stations that contribute to our estimates of its temperature history and climate. Please note that each source's contribution is adjusted for elevation and the relative change present in the MERRA-2 data. Other DataAll data relating to the Sun's position (e.g., sunrise and sunset) are computed using astronomical formulas from the book, Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition , by Jean Meeus. All other weather data, including cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and solar flux, come from NASA's MERRA-2 Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis . This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid. Land Use data comes from the Global Land Cover SHARE database , published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Elevation data comes from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) , published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Names, locations, and time zones of places and some airports come from the GeoNames Geographical Database . Time zones for airports and weather stations are provided by AskGeo.com . Maps are © OpenStreetMap contributors. DisclaimerThe information on this site is provided as is, without any assurances as to its accuracy or suitability for any purpose. Weather data is prone to errors, outages, and other defects. We assume no responsibility for any decisions made on the basis of the content presented on this site. We draw particular cautious attention to our reliance on the MERRA-2 model-based reconstructions for a number of important data series. While having the tremendous advantages of temporal and spatial completeness, these reconstructions: (1) are based on computer models that may have model-based errors, (2) are coarsely sampled on a 50 km grid and are therefore unable to reconstruct the local variations of many microclimates, and (3) have particular difficulty with the weather in some coastal areas, especially small islands. We further caution that our travel scores are only as good as the data that underpin them, that weather conditions at any given location and time are unpredictable and variable, and that the definition of the scores reflects a particular set of preferences that may not agree with those of any particular reader. Please review our full terms contained on our Terms of Service page. |