December 20, 2023

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Joyann Villalta in Calabash Bight. I chose Joyann’s lovely sunrise because today’s lovely sunrise came with sweater weather.

I thought we might see some 69’s for lows today, but I was a little off. Calabash got down to 67 (19C), just one degree from our all-time record low set in February 2020. Many of us got down to 69. I only have one temp from Utila because two of the weather stations out there record rainfall but not temperature.

A few of us saw showers early this morning.

We have quite a bit of clouds and a few showers moving from north to south on our satellite at 7:30 this morning. We’ll stay partly to mostly cloudy through the morning with a decent chance of light showers. Chances are a little better for Utila, where the chance sticks around for the afternoon.

We start the day with north winds at 15 mph and seas around 4 feet. Those winds will become light and variable during the day, and seas will calm to 3 feet on the north side. Winds will remain fairly calm into next week, but seas will stay up around 4 feet for most of the time period because of winds to our northeast. This is a wave map for midday Thursday and you can see probably 5 foot seas for Guanaja, 4 foot for the big island and 2-3 for Utila. Those numbers will last into the holiday weekend.

We continue to have cool days today and tomorrow. Some of us might not see 80 (27C). Tomorrow morning we’ll have a small rain chance. Friday into Saturday morning we’ll have a better rain chance, perhaps 50 percent. After that the holiday weekend looks dry. We’re still watching a possible norther for New Year’s Eve.

Big thanks to Executive Chef Robbie Molina and Melissa Dixon and the crew at Ikigai for showing my wife and our friends what great island fusion cuisine can be. Congrats to Robbie for being named one of the top 100 chefs in the world, and right here in Roatan! If you want a world-class experience, come to Ikigai in French Harbour.

Big thanks to Executive Chef Robbie Molina and Melissa Dixon and the crew at Ikigai for showing my wife and our friends what great island fusion cuisine can be. Congrats to Robbie for being named one of the top 100 chefs in the world, and right here in Roatan! If you want a world-class experience, come to Ikigai in French Harbour.

Published by Roatan Weather Guy

I'm a native of Columbus, Ga., but lived from 2003-2019 in Lawton, Oklahoma. I've always been a weather geek and now I get to live the dream on an island that doesn't have a good weather forecast system.

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