Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Aug. 16, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We have had a dry 24 hours. The news of the day is that the wave of moisture we are expecting for tomorrow now has a 20 percent of tropical development over five days. That is a small chance and it won’t happen until it passes by us intoContinue reading “Aug. 16, 2022”

Aug. 15, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We’ve had a hot and dry 24 hours ending this morning. Looks like the forecast is for more of the same. Today will be mostly sunny with winds 12-17 mph and seas at 2-3 feet (.6 to 1 meter). Tonight winds pick up to 20-25 mph and seas 3-4Continue reading “Aug. 15, 2022”

Aug. 14, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! After a brief shower just after midnight we awoke to clear air giving us a good view of the mainland. Locations mid-island and eastward got in on the shower, bringing up to a tenth of an inch of rain. The west side stayed dry. We have a few cloudsContinue reading “Aug. 14, 2022”

Aug. 12, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We have definitely broken out of the rain cycle into a drier period. Today should be a great day on the sea, with mostly sunny skies and relatively calm winds 10-15 mph and 1-2 foot (.3 to .6 meter) seas. Tonight we will have clear skies and winds toContinue reading “Aug. 12, 2022”

Aug. 10, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! The satellite image here is from this morning around 8:30, but it could have been taken most of the day yesterday. For the entire day a complex of clouds and storms sat to our east, but failed to make it to the island. Only a couple of places gotContinue reading “Aug. 10, 2022”

Aug. 9, 2022: Last night about 8 p.m. we got quite a storm. We recorded sustained winds at 30 mph and most of the island got about half an inch of rain. For the entire day we got a little less than an inch in most locations. Today we will continue with mostly cloudy skiesContinue reading “Aug. 9, 2022”

For the first time in almost a month the National Hurricane Center has a potential storm in the Atlantic. If it becomes anything, it will go turn north and stay well away from us, but most experts expect August to be much more active than July was.

Aug. 8, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! I awoke thinking we’d had a dry overnight, but it turns out we had a few hundredths of an inch and all locations on the island got some rain, mostly in two waves around 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. The big winner was West End with about half anContinue reading “Aug. 8, 2022”

Aug. 7, 2022: All of us have gotten wet between yesterday and this morning, but the amounts have varied drastically. Politilly got 1.21 inches and Punta Blanca 1.14 yesterday while West End and West Bay got little to no rain during the day yesterday and picked up between a tenth and a quarter of anContinue reading “Aug. 7, 2022”

Aug. 6, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! There was quite a variety of rain totals. Most locations on the west side of the island got around a quarter of an inch, but most location mid-island and eastward got more than half an inch. The big winner was Politilly with an inch and three quarters. At 7Continue reading “Aug. 6, 2022”