Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Andrea DeMille and this spooky sunset was taken from the Thai Elephant in West End. Our smoke and dust is continuing to give us spooky skies. I feel like I’m living on Tatooine. Speaking of spooky skies, last night was the strongest aurora borealis events in 20 years.
Our satellite shows lots of high clouds and virtually no popcorns clouds at all. That adds up to hazy skies and no rain chances.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Today we will continue to have 15 mph east winds during the day and 20 mph east winds at night. Seas will be 3-5 feet. Starting tomorrow east winds will be 20 mph during the day and 25-30 mph at night with seas 4-6 feet south side.
I found this from Rob Hoff on Twitter of the Northern Lights over Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. The farthest south I could find mention of the lights last night was Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is almost unheard of that the lights would be seen in Central America, but there is one recorded event, the Carrington Event in 1859, that recorded lights even as close to the equator as Colombia and caused telegraph machines to operate without their battery power. Nothing like that is expected, but the storm will continue through the weekend.
I found this map that uses satellite data to count individual fires. Notice how the number increases in central and eastern interior of Honduras. These are agricultural fires (I understand clearing sugar cane fields) that occur each April and May. This time of year is usually dry, but this year has been unusually dry, adding to the problem.
This forecast wind map for Monday shows the reason we are in so much smoke. Notice the winds coming from the south through the interior of the Mosquito Coast (to our southeast). This is where a lot of the agricultural fires are burning. Then the winds pick up and blow hard from the southeast over us. This next week looks to continue to be smoky and, unfortunately, might even get smokier. I’ve looked in past years weather forecasts and mentions of smoke tend to get less as we get into late May. Let’s hope so.
Treat mom (or anyone) to a choice between surf and turf or pork tenderloin in vodka watermelon (nothing to hate about that) tomorrow at Ikigai by Robby Molina in French Harbour.
Low tide is 6 p.m. Have a great weekend!
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