Cruise ship changes course due to expected weather disruption

We may be seeing the tail end of hurricane season, but evolving weather disturbances remind us that hurricane season is not over yet.

For safety reasons, cruise ships in affected areas have announced necessary itinerary changes ahead of severe weather.

Royal Caribbean has shared the latest news About the five ships: Splendor of the Seas, Freedom of the Seas, Splendor of the Seas, Vision of the Seas and Allure of the Seas.

• The Nov. 2 Splendor of the Seas cruise will still visit Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico, but will change the Grand Cayman port of call to Belize.
• The Freedom of the Seas’ November 3 itinerary was originally scheduled to call at Grand Cayman, Falmouth and Labatee. Due to bad weather, it will now travel in reverse direction to these locations. Labade will be its first port of call, Falmouth the second and Grand Cayman the third.
• the brilliance of the ocean There will be changes to all stops on the November 2 sailing. Bimini will be replaced by Cozumel, Cocoa by Roatan, Freeport by Belize, and Nassau by Costa Maya.
• Vision of the Seas’ Oct. 31 voyage will include a longer stop in Bermuda and an additional port call at Port Canaveral, replacing Nassau and CocoCay.
• Allure of the Seas will no longer be sailing to CocoCay on its Nov. 1 sailing. While it will still travel to Nassau, it will spend an extra day at sea instead of a day at a private resort.

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In Royal Caribbean’s letter to guestsThe cruise line said it is closely monitoring weather conditions with its in-house chief meteorologist Craig Setzer. The email reads: “…we have been monitoring severe weather along our intended route as a storm system develops and is expected to bring increasingly strong winds to the area, impacting our planned ports and potentially disabling them. Not safe.”

Bad weather is expected in Caribbean Sea

Cruise lines are becoming extra cautious Two key areas are experiencing severe weather: tropical downpours in the northeastern Caribbean and the possibility of a tropical depression (or potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen) in the southwest.

The latter had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was moving north at 6 mph. Setzer predicted that the tropical depression will be “absorbed by the developing disturbance in the Caribbean.”

He added that this would affect Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica and cayman islands There will be “particularly windy and stormy periods” over the next few days.

Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center warns parts of Jamaica and Cuba will experience hurricanes maximum rainfall.

Other cruise lines may announce updated itineraries in light of changing weather conditions. Hurricane Milton recently forced port closures Cruise ship changes itinerary.