Springtime in Brevard means warm, humid days and cool nights. The average high temperature at the beginning of spring is 77 degrees F, while the average low is 55 degrees. As spring quickly turns into summer, the average high temperature leaps to 88 degrees and the low to 71 degrees. It gets pretty hot pretty quickly in Brevard as summer approaches, but the rainfall increases as well, from 2.92 inches in March to 5.83 inches in June, helping cool things off a bit.
The summer season in Brevard is hot. With average highs between 88 and 90 degrees, the precipitation flatlines between 5 and 6 inches, but the humidity remains high. The mixture of heat and humidity during summertime in Brevard is oppressive, but luckily the county lies on the East Coast so evenings -- average temperature is 71 to 72 degrees -- tend to feel cooler with the sea breeze. In late summer, afternoon thunderstorms become common, and it is not unusual to see a beautiful blue sky turn into a mass of dark clouds and lightning. Hurricane season begins in June.
As autumn begins the temperature in Brevard is still hot. Summer conditions begin to fade away in October, when the average high temperature falls from 88 degrees in September to 83 degrees, and the average low goes from 71 degrees to 60 degrees in October. By the end of autumn, the average temperature will fall to 78 dgrees. The rainfall will taper off -- from its September high of 7.20 inches to 3.12 inches -- during the fall as well, with the land and air gradually drying out by humid-subtropical standards -- which is not much. Hurricane season ends November 30.
The winter in Brevard County can get pretty cold. The air will get cold enough to freeze a few times per year -- in 1989 and 2003 snow flurries were spotted in Brevard. The average high temperatures remain in the 70s -- 71 to 73 degrees -- while the average low temperatures remain mild -- 50 to 53 degrees. Precipitation is at its lowest during the winter months at less than 2.5 inches per month.