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Weather on the Tui - Santiago section in May?

BobM

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I will be walking from Tui to Santiago in the first half of May & would be interested to hear about likely weather.

Being next to the Atlantic, I am assuming the route will be quite wet most days. Is this the experience of others?

Regards

Bob M
 
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Hola Bob - great to hear you are heading this way again. Who knows about the weather nowadays! Increasingly historic information is proving useless. But in the first half of May I'd have serious hopes for good weather and I'd carry sun screen and rain gear :)

Best wishes

John
 
JohnnieWalker said:
Hola Bob - great to hear you are heading this way again. Who knows about the weather nowadays! Increasingly historic information is proving useless. But in the first half of May I'd have serious hopes for good weather and I'd carry sun screen and rain gear :)

But what about snorkel & flippers :?

Bob M
 
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JohnnieWalker said:
... If you get wet I promise to buy you a large whisky on your arrival in the holy city.

So that means I would really receive the "holy spirit" in Santiago! :D

Bob M
 
Average weather in Galicia, in may :
- 8 to 17 °C, 46 to 63 °F
- 80 mm of Rainfall, on 11/31 days

Atlantic in May ! forget about Snorkel and flippers!
 
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2012 was a very strange and unusal Spring weather-wise, end of April first of May it rained almost every day for three weeks! After two weeks of beautiful sunny weather from Tui it began to rain. Rain rain, none of this spring shower business, rain in buckets with the buckets it came down, up in the mountains out the other way it snowed in O'Cebreiro! This was all very unusual but proven entirely possible. Should 2013 prove to be a usual year, not too hot like 2011 nor too wet like 2012 but say like the Holy Year 2010, try and leave just a bit earlier, you will witness the wildflowers and the spring bloom-wisteria in the towns and villages, mountains covered with lobelia, primroses, wild orchids, foxgloves, and hundreds more-one of my singular disappointments? The Spanish do not recognize their own wildflowers and the field guide is larger than a phonebook. Later you in the season you will find only gorse and broom. Having said that, the weather anymore is “Even with a weatherman you don't know which way the wind blows” (with apologies to Robert Zimmerman better know as B. Dylan).
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