NOAA's former Forts program sought to digitalize handwritten, 19th-century fort records (temperature/precipitation/other observations) across the United States. Fifteen stations in Florida were keyed; the closest to the Canaveral area was the Sanford fort. Unfortunately, no fort data for Florida are currently available online, and since the program was discontinued, the data probably will not be available online in the future. More information can be found at:
Forts Program
http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/research/cdmp/cdmp.html
Location of Fort
Start Record Year
End Record Year
Fort Brooke
1824
1888
Fort Fanning
1840
1843
Fort Jefferson
1861
1873
Gainesville
1856
1861
Jacksonville
1853
1892
Jupiter
1888
1892
Key West
1829
1892
Miami
1839
1891
Pensacola
1849
1892
Punta Rassa
1871
1883
Sanford
1883
1887
St. Augustine
1822
1899
Tallahassee
1859
1892
Tampa
1871
1892
Map displaying the fort sites (pink) as documented in NOAA’s Forts program