Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jeffrey Hill who captured these island black iguanas, also known as washy willies, in his yard above Jonesville Point. They were sunning themselves in the sun. Even though they are cold-blooded, I wonder if they ever get hot, because it was 93 degrees yesterday at the airport. We really hope to get some rain this evening and tomorrow morning.
On our close-up satellite we see a few clouds around, especially on the west side of Roatan and over Utila, but these are unlikely to hold any rain, except maybe that cloud just east of Guanaja. These are very slowly moving to the east.
This map shows the moisture overhead, and you can see what they call the Central American gyre (or Central American low pressure) spinning and slowly moving north. The computer models give us our best chance of rain this evening through tomorrow morning. Let’s hope it happens.
In the Atlantic, there is a disturbance that brought South Florida flooding rains yesterday. In the Bay of Campeche, the Central American low that is bringing us this chance of rain has a 40 percent chance of tropical development next week.
On the Pacific side of things, there is a low percentage chance that low pressure will create a tropical storm. In any case, the Pacific side of Honduras and El Salvador will get flooding rains the first of next week.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to very mild winds and seas around 2 feet this morning. Winds will remain light and variable today and tomorrow with seas 1-2 feet. Saturday and Sunday, winds will be brisker, 20 mph from the east during the day and 25 mph at night with seas 3-5 feet.
I wrote last week about how Ikigai by Robby Molina had the best Asian food around. But don’t sleep on their Mexican food either. These Two Amigo Fajitas were more than enough for lunch. I ended up taking half of them home and having dinner as well.
Lowest tide is 9:17 a.m. Have a great Thursday!
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