omahabob Posted June 24, 2023 #26 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Bret is trending further south and weakening. It's projected to dissipate by Saturday night. Cindy is trending more northward than before, and also expected to weaken. It's projected to be downgraded to a tropical depression by Tuesday. Cruises should not see major impacts from these storms, but could possibly get minor inclement weather as remnants or peripheral effects from them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bead Pirate Posted June 24, 2023 #27 Share Posted June 24, 2023 I keep this map around for my own use during Hurricane Season, thought I would share... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted June 24, 2023 #28 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Thanks. That brings up another point. While these and many other storms may not have major impacts on cruise ships, the more minor peripheral effects could still create conditions that make tendering difficult. So if there's a tender port on your itinerary near storms like this, be aware that it could affect your port visits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruise wizard Posted June 24, 2023 #29 Share Posted June 24, 2023 17 minutes ago, omahabob said: Thanks. That brings up another point. While these and many other storms may not have major impacts on cruise ships, the more minor peripheral effects could still create conditions that make tendering difficult. So if there's a tender port on your itinerary near storms like this, be aware that it could affect your port visits. Even Coco Cay with having a pier that accommodates 2 large ships, we have missed the port because of high wind and heavy seas. There's not a tug boat for any assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted June 24, 2023 #30 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Yeah. The pier is great, but there's no breakwater there to break the swell. And of course, there's the wind. But you don't really need a storm for that. Just a convergence zone will do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirGump Posted June 24, 2023 #31 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Things seem to be looking better! Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted June 24, 2023 #32 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) Wow. Just realized the images I posted above update here whenever NOAA updates them on their site. That's convenient. Bret has now dissipated. Cindy is no longer projected to dissipate by Tuesday, but she's turning even more northward away from the Bahamas. Bermuda may get hit though. Edited June 24, 2023 by omahabob Stupid keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirGump Posted June 24, 2023 #33 Share Posted June 24, 2023 1 hour ago, omahabob said: Wow. Just realized the images I posted above update here whenever NOAA updates them on their site. That's convenient. Bret has now dissipated. Cindy is no longer projected to dissipate by Tuesday, but she's turning even more northward away from the Bahamas. Bermuda may get hit though. Thank you for all of your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted June 24, 2023 #34 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Glad to help. They don't expect anything more to develop in the next seven days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted June 26, 2023 #35 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Cindy is now history. We now return to our regularly scheduled cruises. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rothko1 Posted June 29, 2023 #36 Share Posted June 29, 2023 On 6/24/2023 at 12:29 PM, Bead Pirate said: I keep this map around for my own use during Hurricane Season, thought I would share... Interesting that it doesn't list Nassau as a cruise destination! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted June 29, 2023 #37 Share Posted June 29, 2023 The label is misleading. Those are not cruise destinations. They're private island/beach facilities the cruise lines use. Not sure about Freeport though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rothko1 Posted June 29, 2023 #38 Share Posted June 29, 2023 It should also add Lighthouse Point, although I don't think that's quite open yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BillOh Posted July 3, 2023 #39 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Announcing my presence back in this forum! (No parade or fanfare needed) Its been fun since we started doing Sept cruises back around 2016. This year I might be tempting the Gods, after 21 Royal Cruises we booked an almost free Carnival Cruise - I hope that doesn't destroy the time/space continuum and cause environmental havoc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPacificbound Posted July 4, 2023 #40 Share Posted July 4, 2023 It will be interesting to hear how it goes and what you like, etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted July 13, 2023 #41 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Small low pressure system 800 miles east of Bermuda that has a decent chance of developing into a depression or storm in the next couple of days. But it's then expected to head north, which should weaken it by the weekend. The weather being produced by this system is east and southeast, so it's unlikely to affect any cruise ports. It could affect a northern TA though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerelmx Posted July 26, 2023 #42 Share Posted July 26, 2023 (edited) A tropical wave is located a couple of hundred miles to the southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2 Edited July 26, 2023 by gerelmx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted July 26, 2023 #43 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Only a 30% chance of development in the next week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted July 28, 2023 #44 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Now up to a 60% chance of development in the next seven days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted July 29, 2023 #45 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Chance went up to 70%, but it's expected to turn north in the next few days. So, it's unlikely to affect any cruises, except maybe a TA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare eileeshb Posted August 8, 2023 #46 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Thought I'd join this to inform on North Atlantic/European storms. We just had our first for this year - Antoni which caused major flooding in Dublin, Ireland and lots of wind east of Ireland. It looks like another is developing in the middle of the Atlantic this time and Ireland will start feeling the affects on Thursday. Our weather services are not anywhere near as committed to storm tracking or as good at storm predictions as USA. My family owns Ireland's oldest surf shop so I've looked at weather models for as long as they've been available online. The meteorologists here only started formally naming storm systems in fall of 2014 as they thought it would make people pay more attention to weather warnings. We got hammered by 2 very different storms in January of 2014, the first nicknamed hurricane hercules did millions of euro worth of damage along the west facing coasts of Ireland and Britain through huge wave action, the second was nicknamed storm Darwin and did its damage to Eastern areas with wind, I saw motorway (highway) signs bent in half by the force of those winds. I look at the charts posted by the US fleet meteorology and oceanography services to see the longer term predictions. BTW our weather service usually publishes the naming list in September! So you can understand that Antoni was very early by our standards. At this time of year we'd usually be getting the tail end of the hurricanes and tropical storms named by the US services so we wouldn't need our own naming list yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted August 8, 2023 #47 Share Posted August 8, 2023 That highlights a good point that I've been mostly discounting the storms that move north, away from the US Atlantic coast and Caribbean. I shouldn't have been doing that, obviously, since there are many TA and European cruises that could be affected by them. I'll try not to do that anymore. Though, admittedly, I don't have a lot of storm info sources for European systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BillOh Posted August 10, 2023 #48 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Back for another hello after catching up in this thread. Just over a month till I break the time/space continium thing mentioned above. Mostly seems quiet, but watching the hurricane nursery closer now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omahabob Posted August 10, 2023 #49 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Give it a pacifier and keep it quiet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare SRQbeachgirl Posted August 13, 2023 #50 Share Posted August 13, 2023 On 8/10/2023 at 11:39 AM, omahabob said: Give it a pacifier and keep it quiet. Agreed! We're still trying to put things back together from Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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