Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Jupiter, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Juno Beach, FL, 7 miles southeast of Jupiter at 5 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 58°F. June is the wettest at 10.1 inches of precipitation on average and January and February the driest at 3.9 inches; the year adds up to 72.4 inches over 98 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 62% of the year's precipitation (44.8 of 72.4 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 81 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (24); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 6.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 90 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 72.4 inches is more than at 123 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (98%). Palm Beach Gardens, 5 miles south, has its own station (Palm Beach Gardens, FL): 66.2 inches a year, 6.2 less than here, and an August average high of 89°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Lake Worth Pier, Atlantic Ocean, FL, 23 miles south, averaged 86°F in August and 75°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Lake Worth Pier tide gauge, 23 miles from Jupiter, has risen 1.62 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 99 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 84 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Jupiter: 53 thunderstorm wind reports, 11 lightning strikes, 9 floods, 7 flash floods and 4 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 9, and the NWS estimated $766,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 26, 2006. June has had the most flash floods, 3 of 7. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 165 have had fewer than Jupiter.

Flood insurance policyholders in Jupiter's 3 ZIP codes have filed 734 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $5.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Jeanne in 2004: 91 claims (12% of all) and $605,000, then Hurricane Frances in 2004 with 83 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 50. 47% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 340 Florida cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 220 have fewer than Jupiter.