Southern transatlantic February weather?

Does anyone know what to expect in the weather (temperature, etc.) during the at-sea days on a southern Atlantic crossing in early February?

No. No one "knows." While your question will generate many anecdotal experiences, the weather on your crossing can range anywhere from a few sunny warm days/hours to chilly rainy, snowy days. The seas can be calm, very rough, or anything in between. Just be prepared for a spectrum of possibilities. And be ready for winter weather when you disembark.

BTW, by southern crossing I assume you mean Florida to Europe. We've actually done a Brazil to Europe crossing where the chances are better of having a few more pleasant days.

Shorex has it right.

The weather can vary from cruise to cruise and history means nothing.

It could be sunny, warm, windy, cold, rainy, etc.

Keith

No. No one "knows." While your question will generate many anecdotal experiences, the weather on your crossing can range anywhere from a few sunny warm days/hours to chilly rainy, snowy days. The seas can be calm, very rough, or anything in between. Just be prepared for a spectrum of possibilities. And be ready for winter weather when you disembark.

 

BTW, by southern crossing I assume you mean Florida to Europe. We've actually done a Brazil to Europe crossing where the chances are better of having a few more pleasant days.

Agree.:)

You never know what conditions you’ll encounter at sea, but February is early summer below the equator.

If you are heading to Southampton the last few days will be very cold as thats a winter month for us.

If you are heading through the Gibraltar strait and into the Med it will be a spring 'wear a jacket' type of weather.

Basically......not summer pool weather.

Does anyone know what to expect in the weather (temperature, etc.) during the at-sea days on a southern Atlantic crossing in early February?

Do you mean the South Atlantic, or the southern part of the North Atlantic? Very different locations and very different weather patterns.

We've crossed the Atlantic UK- Barbados and back in Jan and Feb for the last 2 years, and the weather has always been a mixture, as you might expect..chilly until Madeira, then coming home, after the Azores. Once there was a fierce storm ahead from the Azores, so the captain back-peddled, then went to the north of the islands to miss weather nearer to Spain. I can't say we've ever been uncomfortable, but once we were coming out from Tortola and heard that there was a storm to our north, which damaged a vast ship out of Miami- think it might have been Anthem OTS... our captain said he was relieved that we'd been leaving the area when we did. The captains do keep a very close eye on anything which might impact on the ship.

You never know what conditions you’ll encounter at sea, but February is early summer below the equator.

Late summer

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OP: If you post what ship and date you'll be sailing others can check out the route and be better able to at least give you a broad "Guesstimation" of what kind of weather you'll encounter. IE: if your sailing say, between South America and the Med, it will quite different than if your're sailing between England and Fla. (even if it's taking a "southern" route)