Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dani Grindlinger of the full moon over La Sirena de Camp Bay, Restaurant & Bar. You can see owner Jimmy Andrade inside his restaurant. With 10 km visibility last night, we got a good look at the moon and its reflection off the ocean. Unfortunately for those flying today, the smoke has returned this morning.
The smoke looks especially thick coming from the mainland, especially toward Tocoa in the department of Colón. I guess they found more fields to burn. The irony is that we have worse air the Tegucigalpa this morning. Their airport is open. We have some hope later in the day with winds shifting from southeast to slightly northeast. On the bad side, our winds won’t be as strong today, falling to around 10 mph from the east/northeast midday with 2 foot waves. We’ll see if that is enough to push the smoke away.
The latest air quality map shows part of the problem. The concentration of fires on the mainland has moved to the east, the absolute worst place for us when our winds come from the southeast. I am not an expert on the burning habits on the mainland, but I know usually they fade away by the end of May. Even if we don’t get a lot of rain, eastern Honduras should get some next week, and that should help the smoke situation.
Here is the forecast from the US GFS computer. A couple of things about this forecast.
1. It is forecasting some sort of tropical storm forming to our east around the first of June. This is almost certainly not going to happen. The other models are not picking up on it and the GFS has a tendency to exaggerate tropical systems.
2. The GFS is in agreement with the Euro that most of the moisture next week will be to our east. This would be bad news for us. I, for one, would not complaing about a weak tropical storm giving us 45 mph winds, if we could get 5 inches of rain dumped on our heads.
You won’t want to miss The Happy Boys tonight starting at 7:30 at Ikigai by Robby Molina. Great food and great music. Who could hate that?
Low tide is 3 p.m. under a full moon. Have a great Friday!
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