Good morning Bay Islands. This morning’s photo shows the morning clouds over Roatan as Pamela McNab-Fernandez was coming in for a landing from San Pedro Sula. The clouds contain some Saharan dust, but not much smoke. All that smoke is in the lower parts of the atmosphere where we breathe unfortunately.
On satellite we can see the smoky haze and the bluer colors of clearer skies just to our northeast. Unfortunately we are stuck in a southeasterly flow that is driving in smoke from the northeast coast of mainland Honduras. I’m not an expert on the habits of Honduran farmers, but they seem to do a lot of this burning at night, which brings us the most smoke in the mornings. Things seem to get a little better during the day and then it starts all over again. Our main hope is for some rain on the mainland since we seem to have no hope on the islands for rain anytime soon. As we get into the middle of next week there is a better chance of some showers in central Honduras, though chances are still low in northern Honduras.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: I don’t have to tell you it’s windy. We wake up to east/southeast winds around 30 mph and seas around 5 feet south side. As we get toward midday that should go down to 15-20 mph and seas 4 feet south side. Winds tomorrow will be 15 mph midday and 25-30 mph at night. The big news with wind is that the forecast for midweek next week is for the winds to be more directly from the east and not from the southeast. That could mean less morning smoke from the mainland.
We continue to see hope for improvement in the dust forecast, especially for the period Friday through Sunday.
This won’t directly affect us, but the National Weather Service is giving that disturbance on the Pacific side a 30 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone.
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Tides will continue to be mild, with low tides at 10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. Have a great Wednesday!
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