Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Island Jay and shows the Icon of the Seas in port at Coxen Hole framed by a map of our lovely island. In three more days we will be voting on the photo of the month for a free dental cleaning at Dilbert-Thompson dental in French Harbour. If you would like to sponsor the September contest, send me a message!
We had a quiet week last night and should have a beautiful day. The big news is a potential hurricane in the Atlantic.
On satellite we can see small shower that in near Guanaja at 6:45 a.m. Neither of our Guanaja stations have shown any rain, but I imagine someone in Guanaja or may just off the island in the sea may have seen a little rain. Like most showers this time of day, this one is dying. We will keep about a 20 percent chance of a shower through the morning, but we will be mostly sunny otherwise. We will continue to have 30 percent rain chances overnights and early mornings, but otherwise should be nice conditions.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to a bit windier conditions than we’ve had the past few days, with east winds around 15 mph and seas around 3 feet southside. We should calm slightly toward midday, but for the next two days we should be around 15 mph east winds and seas 2-3 feet. This weekend we should go back to having calmer conditions during the day, with east winds 5-10 mph
There’s been a big change in the last 24 hours as to how the computer models are viewing the potential for a tropical storm forming near the Lesser Antilles and moving into the northern Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center gives it a 40 percent chance of forming into a tropical cyclone in the next seven days.
This is the GFS vorticity model, which lets us see potential spin in the atmosphere. You can see the GFS thinks that the storm will become fairly strong and move through the northern Caribbean and cut across Cuba. The good news for us is that most models think this storm will stay well north of us, but this far out anything is possible. We will keep an eye on it.
I want to send a shout out to the security screening staff at the Roatan airport. We were flying back to the States and had something come up we didn’t know was on the no-fly list. The staff handled it with great professionalism and big thanks also to Juliet, who works on the airport staff who found a solution for us.
Low tide is 12:30 p.m. Have a great Thursday!
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