Got your Father’s Day plans ready? You may want to check the weather. It’s summer in Florida, and that means afternoon thunderstorms and surprise rain showers.
It also comes right after the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season started, and the National Hurricane Center is currently watching three tropical waves out there. But experts aren’t expecting anything to develop for at least the next week.
“None of the reputable forecast models are showing a realistic chance of anything tropical forming on the Atlantic side of Central America through mid-month,” said Dr. Ryan Truchelut, chief meteorologist with WeatherTiger.
That doesn’t mean dad won’t get wet.
What will Florida weather be like on Father’s Day 2025?
Widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected across much of the central and eastern United States, extending down into North and Central Florida, for the next couple of days, according to the National Weather Service.
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Father’s Day plans? See Florida rainfall predictions through the weekend
As of June 13, the NWS is forecasting:
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Pensacola, western Panhandle: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4 p.m. High near 87. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
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Tallahassee, central Panhandle: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 90. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
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Jacksonville, North Florida: A slight chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11 a.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 92. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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Daytona Beach across to Orlando and down to Stuart: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high in the low 90s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
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Fort Myers to Sarasota, Southwest Florida: A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8am and 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2 p.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. East southeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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West Palm Beach: A chance of showers between 8am and 11 a.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11 a.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Southeast wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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Naples: A chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11 a.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. East wind 6 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
When is Father’s Day 2025?
Father’s Day is always the third Sunday in June. This year that’s Sunday, June 15.
How did Father’s Day get started?
Mother’s Day started as a commercial holiday in 1908 and was made an official holiday in six years later by President Woodrow Wilson.
Father’s Day started in response to Mother’s Day with the first celebration in 1910, but it took six decades to become official.
According to History.com, the country’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers occurred as a one-time event in 1908 in memory of the 361 men killed in the Monongah, West Virginia mining disaster that left more than a thousand children without a dad the year before. It had been suggested by Grace Golden Clayton, the daughter of a minister.
A year later, Sonora Smart Dodd, who was one of six children raised by a twice married, twice widowed Civil War veteran, began advocating for a day to honor the “loving service” of fathers. In 1909, she talked the Spokane Ministerial Association to honor fathers nationwide for their dedication to their families and by 1910, Washington became the first state to celebrate a statewide Father’s Day.
Father’s Day celebrations were slow to be accepted, with some calling a day for gifts and flowers unmanly and others calling for a single Parents Day. But shops promoted it during the Great Depression as a way to get people to spend money and it took off during World War II as a way to support the troops.
Presidents Wilson and Calvin Coolidge both recognized it, but it wasn’t until 1966 that President Lyndon B. Johnson issued a proclamation designating the date. President Richard Nixon made it a permanent national holiday in 1972.
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