June 6, 2023: Good morning Roatan. We are all happy it rained last night but let’s spare a thought for Larry Rapp’s banana tree in West End that met its end in last night’s storm. I recorded a peak gust of 36 mph. A couple of folks, including Larry in West Bay, have reported over 3 inches in their rain gauge. The most an electronic gauge picked up is 2 inches, in West Bay and Politilly.
Here is the radar, starting at 8:15 p.m. last night and continuing to 8:15 a.m. today. You will notice at the end, it shows the core of the rain over Santa Helena and Guanaja. Lisa Garcia in Guanaja tells us she got .8 of an inch and it continues to rain this morning. There is rain to our west and the general movement of the rain is to the north. We will keep a chance of rain through the day, but especially this morning.
Today should be mostly cloudy with perhaps an occasional shower. Winds will be from the east 10-15 mph and seas around 2 feet. Tonight and tomorrow night there will be a small chance of an overnight shower. Tomorrow during the day through the rest of the week will be fairly calm and dry.
The chance of rain goes up this coming Monday, and the wind finally returns next week.
I want to warn you that you may start getting scary Whatsapp messages because the GFS computer model is trying to predict a tropical storm forming in our area in two weeks. First, this is way early in the season for a tropical storm to be forming around here. Second, computer models two weeks out are extremely unreliable, so I doubt there’s anything to worry about, but we’ll keep an eye on it. Low tide is 4:50 p.m. Have a great Tuesday!
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