June 8, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Drew Shuller and shows a strategically place urinal in West End. That urinal has seen more moisture than our whole island these last few months.

We start with the radar since midnight and it shows a little squall line passing over the island around 1 a.m.

Here is the result of that squall we saw on radar from around 1 a.m. Several locations on Roatan picked up a measly .01 of an inch of rain, barely enough to get the ground wet.

For the rainfall forecast, I thought I’d start with the one that gives us the most hope. The Euro gives us about an inch over the next week and shifts the dry hole to our east. Over my last five years on the island, I’ve noticed that this time of year, when we start getting squalls off the sea, for some reason we are in a bit of a drier hole. There is generally more rain to our east, west, north and south. This year is no exception. The past few days we have suffered the fate of Tantallus, seeing rain all around but none for us.

Here’s the US GFS model for rainfall for the next week (through Friday) and we are the driest spot in the forecast, with maybe half an inch through the week.

You can see that the German ICON model agrees with the GFS that we will be in a dry hole for the next week.Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Our winds and seas are quite close to flat calm. Winds will be light and variable through the weekend and seas 1 foot most of the time. Sunday night and Monday night we may get a little wind (10-15 mph) and next week looks SLIGHTLY windier with maybe 2 foot seas and occasionally 3 feet, but all in all the next week will be great on the water.

Mitch Cummins recently let me know he is working on a new process of freeze drying that will extend the shelf life of his Roatan Pets food, but the fact that it HAS a shelf life tells you what you need to know. His food is fresh and made of locally sourced ingredients focused on your pet’s health, not on corporate profit margin sitting on a shelf or on a boat for months on end.

Lowest tide is 4:30 p.m. Have a great weekend!