California to Florida trip

Thank you all for the advice. It has given me a better idea as to when to plan my trip. I still need to get some modifications done to the mothership for my son to travel in. The genorator needs to be fixed. Still would like to travel with another party, at least some of the way.
Thanks again!
Peg

I agree with Tatest. Comeon down! Any time is great to travel.It may be hot, but who cares?

What, to you, is bad weather?

The whole country is hot in summer, if that's bad.

From Florida to central Texas there is a hurricane risk for most of the year, but you avoid hurricanes by watching the forecasts, not going through at the same time.

Thunderstorm and tornado season across the south is October through April, these are shorter length events, but forecast only a day or two in advance. In Texas along the I-10 route, that season may be more like September-November and February-June, December and January the bad weather is ice storms.

I do my traveling at all times of the year, frequent trips to destinations from central Texas to central Florida, all through the southern states in between. The way I handle weather is to watch the 2-5 day forecasts, plan my moves for when the weather is clear, sit out the episodes that will make travel uncomfortable (ice, snow, major frontal systems producing severe storms, hurricanes). If I have my house with me, short waits are no real problem. Using motels, I tend to get grumpy about waiting an extra day.

Avoiding high temperatures, a lot harder to do, I don't really try. I am accustomed to living where daily highs will go into high 90s to low 100s for two to three months. That's body temperature, actually quite nice if not in the sun, and not exerting one's self.

It's hot and humid in Florida. Take rockhillmanor's advice and put it off untill the fall. I still go camping in the summer - going over labor day to a state park, but I'm used to the temps and humidity.

Take it from someone that lives in MISSISSIPPI that you really do not want to visit during the months of late May, June, July, August and most of September. I'm in west central MS and it doesn't cool off until Halloween here. Now it is cooler in October but we still have to run a/c! Around Thanksgiving it get dreary some days and Jan - Feb tends to be the coldest time and if it is going to sleet or ice it will be in February.

March, April and early May or late September through Thanksgiving is when I would travel the lower states.

I would not drive in the southern states during the summer months. Been there did that 'once'. For me it was hard on my dogs and IMHO hard on the engine of the RV driving any length of time in high humid heat.

It is a much more enjoyable trip if taken in cooler nicer weather if it is all possible with your schedule you have.