Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Paiz Sloane at Mangrove Bight in Guanaja. I love being able to include Guanaja here because all the islands are part of our effort to keep the Bay Islands safe and informed. Paiz is bringing down a new weather station which will be our first one on Guanaja. Thanks so much!!!
We have been dealing with some showers and a few rumbles of thunder this morning. From now until Saturday we will be dealing with scattered showers, but we will be seeing a bit more sun today through Saturday than we did yesterday.
Rain will be possible throughout the day, but more likely in the mornings and late evenings. Middays give us the best shot of sunshine.
The wind forecast is still a little tricky because we are still in an area of variable winds, but they will generally be lighter (7-15 mph) and more and more from the west. But some areas could experience occasional gusty winds, especially near squalls. Seas will start to calm from the current 4-5 feet to 3-4 feet.
Winds pick up on Saturday and especially Sunday as a norther passes through, bringing northwest winds 25-30 mph (perhaps up to 40 mph in Guanaja) and seas 5-6 feet especially on the north and west sides. The models are moving this front through so quickly that there isn’t as much rain as you would expect from a norther. We’ll keep an eye on it. After the norther moves through we will have quite cool conditions with highs perhaps only in the 70s.
As you can see on the forecast map, after the norther moves through, things look pretty clear behind it for much of next week. The forecast as we get toward Christmas Day actually looks pretty nice.
Low tide is 3:17 p.m. Lowest tide is 3:07 a.m. under a dark sky with no moon. Have a great Wednesday!
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