Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dean Olds at Villas del Playa at West End. As I was choosing photo of the day, Sailing by Christopher Cross came up on my music mix, so I think it biased me. We’ve had strong winds to sail with. I got up to 35 mph last night. We have one windy night left before we go into a calmer period.
On the satellite can see the front to our north that will get close Thursday and Friday. In the circled area we can see our clear skies. This morning at 6:30 a.m. we have already started our mid-morning calm-down to winds 10-15 mph from the southeast with seas calming to 3 feet on the south side, which we will have much of today before getting much windier (25-30 mph) tonight.
Midday tomorrow we will start having calmer winds and a turn to the northeast at 5-10 mph.
Thursday winds turn to the west at 15 mph. Thursday we will be partly cloudy and have a 20 percent chance of an isolated shower. That chance will increase to 30 percent for Friday morning.
If you were fortunate enough to be on the islands Oct. 14 to see the total eclipse you got a once or twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity. On Monday, we will only be getting a partial eclipse with 40 percent of the sun covered up by the moon. That may sound like a lot, but the sun is very bright, so it won’t make it much darker here. If you want a complete eclipse experience, you need to go to Mazatlan, Mexico or Austin, Texas (though both those places may be getting cloudy skies that day, and even we here in Roatan should have morning clouds that day). I would suggest you look, instead at the light through the leaves of trees. When you look on the ground, the light will be reflected on the ground with a mirror image of the sun in a crescent shape, reflecting the portion that is being eclipsed by the moon.
I was so pleased that a pet-lover was the winner of the March contest and $50 in Roatan Pets, but not nearly so pleased as her poochies will be. Hopefully a food-lover winds the April prize of $50 worth of food from Blue Bahia Beach Grill.
Lowest tide is 10:30 p.m. Have a great Tuesday!
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