Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Sept. 27, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Hurricane Ian is exiting the Caribbean this morning. A couple of outer bands brought us some squalls yesterday morning, but not everybody saw rain. West Bay, for instance, recorded none. Today we have mostly sunny skies and a mild westerly breeze. As the day goes on, that breeze mayContinue reading “Sept. 27, 2022”

Sept. 26, 2022: Want to see the birth of a hurricane? It happened last night just northeast of us. This morning we awoke to Hurricane Ian. It life expectancy is less than a week, but it will probably do a lot of damage in that week. Fortunately for us we are very much out ofContinue reading “Sept. 26, 2022”

Tropical update for Sept. 25, 2022: Tropical Storm Ian continues to track a little further west than they expected, meaning our chances of getting some effects is a bit greater. Guanaja now has a 5 percent chance of picking up tropical storm force (39 mph) winds Monday morning. Our main effect should be northerly windsContinue reading “Sept. 25, 2022”

Tropical update for Sept. 24, 2022: You know that feeling you get when you are standing at the side of the road where the road curves, and car is coming right at you but you trust that it will turn away from you in order to stay on the road? That’s where we’re sitting rightContinue reading “Sept. 24, 2022”

Sept. 24, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! This morning, about 2 a.m. we got three quarters of an inch on Jonesville Point and throughout yesterday afternoon we saw several heavy showers here on the east side, though most rain gauges only picked up a few hundredths or tenths of an inch. Our calm winds and seasContinue reading “Sept. 24, 2022”

Sept. 23, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! The west side of the island got quite wet last night, but pretty much all of us got some beneficial rain. West Bay reported 2.24 inches in a downpour that happened about 7 p.m. yesterday. West End got about an inch. Sandy Bay picked up about a quarter ofContinue reading “Sept. 23, 2022”

Tropical update for Sept. 23, 2022: Overnight we definitely got clarity as to where our storm is going and it is away from us. Tropical Depression Nine (probably soon to become Hermine) formed a little to the north of where we expected and it is expected to track west until tomorrow evening when a sharpContinue reading “Tropical outlook for Sept. 23, 2022”

Sept. 22, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We have a few clouds and showers around this morning with peeks of sunshine. Utila picked up about half an inch midday yesterday and .05 this morning. The location near Mud Hole picked up a whopping 2.46 inches yesterday. Most of the rest of us got little or noContinue reading “Sept. 22, 2022”

Tropical update for Sept. 22, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! I’m not doing a video today because we don’t know a lot more today than we did yesterday. Invest 98L is still sitting on the coast of Venezuela and has not formed into a tropical cyclone. When it does, we will know more about what generalContinue reading “Tropical update for Sept. 22, 2022”

Sept. 21, 2022 Tropical Update: Good morning. We have a video explaining how forecast trends seem to indicate the Invest 98L (which should become Hermine) will move westward toward us before likely turning north toward Yucatan or Cuba around Monday. One correction: I say in the video that Eta and Iota were last year, butContinue reading “Sept. 21, 2022”