weather in march

[philred]

off to barbados in march can anybody tell me what the weather is likely to be on our sea days  as we leave st maarten and head to the azores before arriving back in southampton 

[terrierjohn]

Warmer than it will be for our return journey on Ventura at the end of January!!!

Don't worry it should be hot until the Azores, then unpredictable for the last 3 days back to Southampton, if you are lucky it will sunny and pleasant, or it could be wet and windy.

[tring]

We have done a couple of returns at that time of year and weather very pleasant, though not for sitting out on deck for the last couple of days, obviously.  Thing with coming that direction is that our weather systems tend to come from that direction, so one can follow you across.

 

We had a very unusual, sunny, flat seas crossing for one of our journies but I know someone who had bad seas throughout.  Apparently the captain did not use the stabilisers for the first day or so as he hoped to outrun the weather system, but realised he was not going to and slowed down (hence could use the stabilisers).  It seems the whole crossing was "shower at your own risk" sort of weather.  I would still much prefer to do the journey back at that time of year, rather than travel across in hurricane season (the autumn) and you also miss an overnight flight.  We would happily do it again, but maybe quite picky about which cabin location we choose and be well stocked with tablets, just in case. 

Edited November 8, 2018 by tring