Good morning. Drew Shuller captured these movie stars on West Bay Beach a couple of weeks ago.
This morning isn’t this sunny for most of us. Just since 5 a.m. West Bay has picked up well over an inch of rain with more possible this morning. We also have our first real possibility of a tropical storm in the Caribbean.
If you look real close at our 6-7 a.m. satellite, you can see the dark gray cloud top blossom over West Bay. We also see a lot of rain to our north. We’ll look for lots of scattered showers around this morning. These should weaken this afternoon. I’m not going to say it won’t rain this afternoon, but we should definitely see more sun.
Into the weekend we will continue to have scattered showers, mostly overnights and early mornings.
Here is the forecast from the NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center showing the storm we talked about earlier this week as it was coming off the coast of Africa. You will notice that the yellow box of its forecast movement is to our south. That is because we are starting to see the influence of cold fronts from our north that will tend to push this system south of us. It only has a 30 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression over the next week. Chances are good this has no effect on our weather, but we will keep an eye on it.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds and waves overall are fairly calm, but don’t tell the folks on West Bay Beach, because this is the time of year we see what little wave action we get going where it hardly ever goes, West Bay. We have 1-2 foot waves coming in on West Bay Beach from 10 mph west winds. Winds today will continue from the west, but we should see light and variable winds through the weekend. We are watching a very light norther perhaps for the end of the coming week that will bring more rain and perhaps 2-3 foot waves to West Bay by late next week.
Low tide is 12:30 p.m. Have a great Friday!
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