{"id":2791,"date":"2021-07-22T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2021-07-22T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:46:49","slug":"weather-like-cruising-caribbean-gulf-mexico-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/22\/weather-like-cruising-caribbean-gulf-mexico-august\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the weather like cruising the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico during August?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather during August\u00a0<\/span>is a very warm in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico and this is also the month when tropical cyclones become active. Gale force winds are rare, however,\u00a0 but can occur in the vicinity of tropical storms and hurricanes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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August Pilot Chart<\/p><\/div>\n

Wind<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The prevailing winds across the Caribbean during August tend to be from the east,\u00a0 generally light to moderate (7-16 knots) except in the south-central portion of the Caribbean where moderate to fresh (11-21 knot) winds prevail from the east or northeast and where\u00a0 rough seas of\u00a0 8 feet or higher can be expected about 20-30% of the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the Gulf of Mexico the wind tends to be light (7-11 knots) and more variable in direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tropical Cyclones\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tropical cyclone activity is most frequent over the northeastern Caribbean Sea and waters north of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola as well as the Bahamas and east of Florida\u00a0 where there is a 30-40% risk of at least one storm occurring during\u00a0 the month of August. \u00a0 The risk decreases to around\u00a0 20% over the Gulf of Mexico and to below 10% over the southwestern Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n

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August Tropical Cyclone tracks<\/p><\/div>\n

Temperature<\/strong><\/h3>\n

August is very warm with air temperatures averaging 82F to 85F and sea temperatures range between 83F to 86F.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The weather during August\u00a0is a very warm in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico and this is also the month when tropical cyclones become active. Gale force winds are rare, however,\u00a0 but can occur in the vicinity of tropical storms and hurricanes.\u00a0 Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,85,10],"tags":[43,25,86,18,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791"}],"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=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}