Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Palm Beach Gardens, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 3 miles southwest of Palm Beach Gardens at 20 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 74°F and 56°F. June is the wettest at 9.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 66.2 inches over 93 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (43.0 of 66.2 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 81 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal October there has highs of 85°F and 6.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 55 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 1 nights a year. That 66.2 inches is more than at 114 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (91%). North Palm Beach, 4 miles east, has its own station (Juno Beach, FL): 72.4 inches a year, 6.2 more than here, and an August average high of 91°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Lake Worth Pier, Atlantic Ocean, FL, 17 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, 17 miles from Palm Beach Gardens, 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 100 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Palm Beach Gardens: 63 thunderstorm wind reports, 14 floods, 12 flash floods, 8 lightning strikes and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $774,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 2, 2004. June has had the most flash floods, 3 of 12. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 189 have had fewer than Palm Beach Gardens.

Flood insurance policyholders in Palm Beach Gardens's 3 ZIP codes have filed 785 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $5.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Frances in 2004: 110 claims (14% of all) and $321,000, then Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 with 76 and Flooding in 1982 with 48. 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, 223 have fewer than Palm Beach Gardens.