Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Lorena González-Vindel who captured this lightning strike in French Harbour last night. We have been hit pretty hard by lightning storms the last couple of days and many locations have gotten close to 6 inches over the last 48 hours.
To summarize our forecast, we will continue rainy this week, but a norther will arrive on Thursday bringing north winds and fresh temperatures. For the next two weeks, the driest day looks to be Saturday and maybe Sunday, which could be quite nice and maybe even require a jacket.
Let’s start with a quick look at rainfall since midnight. I know this isn’t everybody with a station, but it gives us an overview of who got the most rain.
We can see on satellite at 8 a.m. that West Bay is getting some clearing and some sun, but recently whenever we think things are going to clear out, the storms build back and take over again. Periods of heavy rain are likely through tomorrow. Thursday brings our norther and lots of clouds that drop a cool rain on us. That should continue through Friday morning, but as we get into Saturday, we should get into the drier side of the norther. When this happens we often get some gray clouds, but less rain. I think we should get close to 70 degrees (21C) Saturday morning and maybe Sunday morning. Sunday evening into next week the heavy rain returns.
Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with northwest winds 10 mph and seas around 3 feet northside. This afternoon we should see those calm a bit, but tomorrow the norther sweeps in as we can see from the current wind map. I expect northwest winds 20-25. Seas should be 5 feet northside tomorrow, 4 feet on Friday and around 2 feet Saturday.
This is the US GFS forecast for precipitation for the next two weeks. You can clearly see the norther come in Thursday and try to clear us out Saturday. Starting Sunday night you can see the rebound moisture bringing us rain. As the week goes on next week, you can see perhaps a little rotation in the rain, and I think it is possible the NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center gives us a little yellow X for the possibility of a tropical depression. I don’t think this is likely, but I do think it is possible. We’ll keep an eye on it.
Over the next month we will have a couple of holidays particularly popular with North Americans (OK, Canadians have their own Thanksgiving at a different time). But when folks get together for these occasions they want the best meat on the island for grilling, and they get that at Carniceria Rosita with locations in Coxen Hole and French Harbour.
Low tide is 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. Have a great Wednesday!
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