Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Stacy Peñalva, who captured this halo around our supermoon last night while it was being eclipsed by a palm tree in Lawson Rock.
This morning we have a few scattered showers around and are still watching for the possibility of stormy weather late weekend into early next week.
At 6:40 a.m. we have a storm coming off the coast that is headed northwest toward Roatan and Guanaja. If it makes it here it should cause rain, especially Guanaja and midisland to east side around 9 a.m. We will keep a 40 percent chance of a scattered shower through the afternoon today. Tomorrow through Saturday we will have 30 percent chances of rain daytime and 50 percent chances overnight into the early morning. It looks like the trend is going to be toward an increase in scattered showers as our tropical wave gets going.
If you watched the video I posted yesterday to the Facebook group, you learned about the Central American Gyre, which is a factory for producing tropical storms. Fortunately for us they generally aren’t tropical storms until they leave here. The forecast is still calling for a peak of storminess here on Monday before the storm (potentially Tropical Storm Helene) moves north and away from us. The National Hurricane Center has put out an area for investigation, but it only gives it a 20 percent chances of forming a tropical depression over the next 7 days, showing they are still suspicious the models are wrong. We’ll keep an eye on it.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: This morning we have east winds around 15 mph and seas at 3 feet south side. Midday we will be around 10-15 mph and seas at 2 feet. Winds and seas should be slightly calmer tomorrow and quite a bit calmer Friday into Saturday.
All this talk of storminess can make visitors nervous, but Jolly Roger Roatan is guaranteed to show you the best time possible while getting you back aboard your ship safely and on time. This storm is a great example of how rare tropical storms are in our part of the Caribbean. You are much more likely to have a hurricane ruin your Florida vacation that you are to run into weather trouble in Roatan.
Tides continue to run on the high side during our full moon. Have a great Wednesday!
Welcome to Roatan Weather 