Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Melbourne, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Melbourne WFO, FL, 2 miles southeast of Melbourne at 35 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 72°F and 51°F. September is the wettest at 8.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.3 inches; the year adds up to 55.3 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 69% of the year's precipitation (38.3 of 55.3 inches); the other six months are drier. Highs reach 90°F on about 76 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 2 nights a year. That 55.3 inches is more than at 70 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (56%). Indialantic, 6 miles southeast, has its own station (Melbourne International Airport, FL): 50.9 inches a year, 4.4 less than here, and an August average high of 89°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Trident Pier, Port Canaveral, FL, 20 miles north, averaged 87°F in September and 69°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Port Canaveral tide gauge, 20 miles from Melbourne, has risen 2.52 ± 0.26 inches per decade from 1994 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 25.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 137 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 123 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Melbourne: 96 thunderstorm wind reports, 11 heavy rain events, 9 lightning strikes, 5 flash floods and 2 floods. They killed 3 people and injured 33, and the NWS estimated $75.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 89 mph, on July 23, 2003. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 143 have had fewer than Melbourne.

Flood insurance policyholders in Melbourne's 5 ZIP codes have filed 1,459 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $21.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Fay in 2008: 582 claims (40% of all) and $10.9 million, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 231 and Flooding in 1995 with 145. 84% 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, 263 have fewer than Melbourne.