The south of Greenland is not as far north as you might think! The southern tip at Cape Farvel is just at 59° 46?, Vik y Myrdal, one of the most southerly villages on Iceland is located at 63° 25?! South Greenland is not a very rainy region as well. At Narsarsuaq (the airport we landed) the averaged value for yearly precipitation is just 512 mm (Munich = 811mm) and the summer months are rather dry!
Therefore we had, unfortunately, a very unique weather during the week of our journey. It rained for three days in a row, nearly without a break and the land was soaked with water! The cloud level was very low , sometimes it was foggy. At least we did not have much wind during the rainy days!
Of course temperatures have been cool, but by far not as could as in our winter or late fall and during the sunny days I just wore t-shirts. I expected much more icy katabatic winds blowing down from the ice shield, but at least in our area during our stay we did not have any. But I guess we just had been a bit lucky.
The first day was as sunny as a day can be! Having the weather forecast in mind I expected a change and I worked like hell on the deck of the Rembrandt, taking pictures of icebergs in the fjords, juggling with two cameras and several lenses, jumping from starboard to portside and back again. I guess my fellow travellers must have thought that I am a very strange guy.... After a while they got used to it, I hope.
Anyway we could not change it and the Rembrandt was dry and warm. We met some tourists doing a Zodiac based cruise for several days, staying in tents. Definitly not so cosy!
All landings could be done, but the hikers looked very wet and we had been very wet!