Good morning Bay Islands on the penultimate day of the year. Our photo of the day is a wonderful sunset from Brad Ryon on Utila.
At 2 a.m. a few locations mid-island and east side, as well as Utila, got a good rain. I know you’re wondering about tomorrow night.
At 7:30 we see on satellite that most of the rain is to our west. There are a few showers to Roatan’s northeast, so a chance of a shower here or there this morning, but mostly sunny midday and afternoon. Our rain chances tomorrow morning are also pretty low. As for New Year’s Eve, rain chances will increase as we get toward midnight.
Here is the GFS (American model) forecast through Monday. You can see today’s morning rains pass through, followed by clearing this afternoon through tomorrow morning. As wave of rain energy passes through tomorrow night, but it is possible most of it may miss us to the west, keep our New Year’s revelers drier. I would say there is still a 60 or 70 percent chance you will see some rain at some point New Year’s Eve night into New Year’s morning. After that we look quite dry into next week.
Wind and wave forecast: We are quite calm this morning, but what winds we have are starting to turn to the northeast. We will have northeast winds today 5-10 mph and seas 2-3 feet. Tomorrow morning will start calm, but winds will increase in the afternoon from the north to 15-20 mph as we get toward tomorrow night into Thursday morning, with seas 4-5 feet. Friday winds turn back to the east.
If you want great meats for your holiday cookout, check out Carniceria Rosita in French Harbour or Coxen Hole. Keep in mind they will be closed on New Year’s Day.
The tide will be quite low at midnight tonight. Have a great Tuesday!
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