{"id":1519,"date":"2017-09-28T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2018-02-28T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:00:17","slug":"what-is-the-weather-like-cruising-the-caribbean-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/28\/what-is-the-weather-like-cruising-the-caribbean-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the weather like cruising the Caribbean in October?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1520\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/october-Pilot-Caribbean-tropical-cyclones.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1520\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1520\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/october-Pilot-Caribbean-tropical-cyclones-300x201.png\" alt=\"Pub. 106 Atlas of Pilot Charts North Atlantic Ocean (including Gulf of Mexico), 2002 Ed.\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/october-Pilot-Caribbean-tropical-cyclones-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/october-Pilot-Caribbean-tropical-cyclones-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/october-Pilot-Caribbean-tropical-cyclones.png 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pub. 106<br \/>Atlas of Pilot Charts North Atlantic Ocean (including Gulf of Mexico), 2002 Ed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>October is an excellent month to cruise the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 Generally, winds are light to moderate coming primarily from the east and averaging 7-16 knots with the risk for encountering gale force or higher winds are 1 percent or less.\u00a0 Gales, when they do occur, are associated with hurricanes which can and do occur this month, mostly over the western Caribbean, eastern Gulf of Mexico and the waters east of Florida and near the Bahamas.\u00a0 Overall, the risk for encountering rough seas (over 12 feet) is generally 10 % or less.<\/p>\n<p>During the month of October, the most active area for tropical cyclones is the northwestern Caribbean Sea, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the waters east of Florida to the Bahamas. In these areas there is a risk of 30-40% of having a tropical cyclone pass over at least once during the month.\u00a0 Over the eastern Caribbean Sea the risk is 15% or less.<\/p>\n<p>Air temperatures remain warm, averaging 27-28 C\u00a0 (80-83 F) while sea temperatures average 28-29 C (82-84 F).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1522\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pilot-Chart-Caribbean-and-Gulf-of-Mexico-for-October.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1522\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pilot-Chart-Caribbean-and-Gulf-of-Mexico-for-October-300x221.png\" alt=\"Pilot Chart October for Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea \" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pilot-Chart-Caribbean-and-Gulf-of-Mexico-for-October-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pilot-Chart-Caribbean-and-Gulf-of-Mexico-for-October-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pilot-Chart-Caribbean-and-Gulf-of-Mexico-for-October.png 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pilot Chart October for Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is an excellent month to cruise the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 Generally, winds are light to moderate coming primarily from the east and averaging 7-16 knots with the risk for encountering gale force or higher winds are 1 percent or less.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/28\/what-is-the-weather-like-cruising-the-caribbean-in-october\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,85],"tags":[43,86,27,5,14,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}