196 Days And Counting.....

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have been playing with the packing lists in terms of the ratio of warm weather clothing to cool weather clothing.  I decided to spend part of the day yesterday on the internet doing research into the average monthly temperature highs and lows and the average rainfall in mm for the ports we would visit in each of the four months.  I used the website weatherbase.com to create the table that appears below:

Date	Port	Hi C	Low C	Rain mm
06 Jan 2016	Key West, FL, USA	24	18	51
09 Jan 2016	Puerto Limon, Costa Rica	28	22	310
10 Jan 2016	Panama Canal Transit
12 Jan 2016	Manta, Ecuador	30	22	40
14 Jan 2016	Salaverry, Peru	21 avg		5
15 Jan 2016	Lima (Callao), Peru	26	20	----
22 Jan 2016	Easter Island, Chile	25	21	90
25 Jan 2016	Pitcairn Island	26	21	121
28 Jan 2016	Fakarava, French Polynesia	27 avg		221
29 Jan 2016	Moorea, French Polynesia	31	22	330
29 Jan 2016	Papeete, French Polynesia	31	22	330
31 Jan 2016	Bora Bora, French Polynesia	30	23	470
02 Feb 2016	Rarotonga, Cook Islands	28	24	220
07 Feb 2016	Tauranga, New Zealand	24	15	80
08 Feb 2016	Auckland, New Zealand	24	16	80
09 Feb 2016	Bay of Islands, New Zealand	24	16	---
13 Feb 2016	Sydney, Australia	26	18	110
15 Feb 2016	Newcastle, Australia	25	19	100
18 Feb 2016	Townsville. Australia	31	23	290
19 Feb 2016	Cairns, Australia	31	23	410
22 Feb 2016	Thursday Island, Australia	29	24	370
24 Feb 2016	Darwin, Australia	31	24	340
27 Feb 2016	Benoa, Bali, Indonesia	30	25	280
02 Mar 2016	Sandakan, Malaysia	30	24	200
04 Mar 2016	Manila, Philippines	32	22	10
06 Mar 2016	Hong Kong, China	21	17	70
10 Mar 2016	Ha Long Bay, Vietnam	21	16	40
13 Mar 2016	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	33	24	10
16 Mar 2016	Bangkok, Thailand	33	25	30
18 Mar 2016	Ko Samui, Thailand	31	26	78
20 Mar 2016	Singapore	31	25	174
22 Mar 2016	Port Klang, Malaysia	32	23	230
23 Mar 2016	Penang, Malaysia	31	24	140
24 Mar 2016	Phuket, Thailand	32	23	30
26 Mar 2016	Yangon, Myanmar	36	21	---
01 Apr 2016	Colombo, Sri Lanka	31	26	250
02 Apr 2016	Cochin, India	31	26	120
04 Apr 2016	Mumbai, India	33	24	0.5
07 Apr 2016	Dubai, U.A.E.	31	20	10
10 Apr 2016	Muscat, Oman	33	26	20
12 Apr 2016	Salalah, Oman	32	24	10
17 Apr 2016	Safaga, Egypt	22 avg		0.5
18 Apr 2016	Aqaba, Jordan	29	19	10
19 Apr 2016	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	30	20	0.2
20 Apr 2016	Suez Canal Transit
20 Apr 2016	Port Said, Egypt	21	17	none
21 Apr 2016	Ashdod, Israel	25	12	18
22 Apr 2016	Haifa, Israel	24	14	24
24 Apr 2016	Souda Bay, Crete, Greece	21	12	32
25 Apr 2016	Corfu, Greece	19	9	67
26 Apr 2016	Kotor, Montenegro	18	8	140
26 Apr 2016	Dubrovnik, Croatia	16	10	104
28 Apr 2016	Venice, Italy	16	8	64
March 2016	Paro Bhutan	15	1	---

As you will notice, most of the ports fall between 21 C and 33 C for average high temperatures until we get to the ports in the Mediterranean at the end of the cruise.  I think I will need to adjust the mix of clothing further.  I had settled on 60% warm weather attire and 40% cool weather.  I may now go for 80% warm and 20% cool.

The other interesting piece of info from the table is the average amount of monthly rainfall (in mm) for the various ports.  There were some surprises for me.  Puerto Limon, Costa Rica gets approximately 310 mm of rain in January.  To put that in perspective, we got 82 mm of rain in April of this year.  Cairns, Thursday Island and Darwin, Australia receive  410, 370 and 340 mm respectively for the month of February.  Bora, Bora, French Polynesia takes the prize in this category with 470 mm of rain in January.  I will be packing Gore-Tex jackets for Myster and me.  The ship provides umbrellas for the use of passengers.  Hopefully the weather will cooperate for us.

And the planning continues.....