Most of the year, puffy white clouds parade through a clear blue sky, and warm balmy breezes gently ruffle hair and sway palm fronds: T-shirt, shorts and sandals kind of weather, interrupted now and then by a tropical shower .

From July to November, however, this halcyon state of affairs may be interrupted by the hurricane season , the wettest time of the year and also the most humid. The best time to visit is between mid-December and mid-April, when the weather is dry and the heat is tempered by cooling trade winds.