Dry season

NWS Miami describes southeast Florida as having two predominant seasons, summer and winter: a summer of warm, humid conditions with frequent showers and thunderstorms, and a winter with cooler temperatures, lower humidities and less frequent precipitation. The office includes autumn and spring in the winter season because both transition periods are drier and cooler than summer.

Cambridge Dictionary's general entry names no place. NWS Miami's study rests on Miami International Airport records, so for Naples itself the local numbers are the Naples Municipal Airport normals.

Arithmetic over NOAA's 1991 to 2020 precipitation normals for Naples Municipal Airport puts November, December, January and February each under 1.7 inches, the four lowest of the twelve monthly figures, against 8.89 inches in August and 8.60 in September. The same station's temperature normals put those four months' normal highs between 74.8 F in January and 81.3 F in November, and the lowest normal low in the table, 55.9 F, falls in January.

A monthly normal is a thirty-year average of the rain that fell in that month, not a forecast and not a count of dry days inside it. A month that averages under 1.7 inches can still bring a wet afternoon, so the figure describes the season and never promises a particular dry window; the full twelve-month normals table sets every month side by side.

The paver sealer's condition comes from ICPI's Tech Spec 5, a completely dry surface and a full 24 hours without moisture before most sealers, and from SEK-Surebond, whose TB.6 asks for the same 24 hours and whose TB17 names select Surebond sealers that tolerate a damp surface.

Both documents tie the wait to the surface and to the product, and neither ties it to a month. The dry season makes those 24 hours easier to find than the rainy months do; it does not change the condition. The right month for exterior cleaning in Naples weighs the whole exterior against that calendar, and cleaning a roof in winter takes up the roof on its own. The same wait follows a paver cleaning before its sealing, one of the timing questions in whether all three exterior cleanings can share one visit, and the rainy season is the other half of the calendar.