{"id":3913,"date":"2025-11-12T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:30:04","slug":"cruising-caribbean-december-weather-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/cruising-caribbean-december-weather-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising the Caribbean in December:  What Weather to Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December marks the beginning of the dry season in the Caribbean, making it a popular time to trade cold weather for warm sun and clear waters. Generally, you can expect pleasant conditions, with low humidity, comfortable temperatures, and a very low risk of tropical storms.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!HkYF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9ca8414-5792-4701-930e-cd62ddd3f393_1125x766.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a detailed breakdown of the wind, wave, temperature, and rainfall conditions for a December cruise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fredpickhardt.substack.com\/p\/cruising-the-caribbean-in-december\">Read more here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fred Pickhardt<\/p>\n<p>Marine Meteorologist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December marks the beginning of the dry season in the Caribbean, making it a popular time to trade cold weather for warm sun and clear waters. Generally, you can expect pleasant conditions, with low humidity, comfortable temperatures, and a very low risk of tropical storms. <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/cruising-caribbean-december-weather-expect\/\">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":[1],"tags":[43,25,86,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913"}],"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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3915,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}