Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

June 11, 2022: Good morning Roatan! Last night about 10:30 we got a sharp gust of wind at 37 mph and a quick downpour of .15 of an inch. Politilly got about a tenth of an inch early this morning. If you got some rain, let us know in comments. Today will be mostly sunnyContinue reading “June 11, 2022”

June 10, 2022: Good morning Roatan! This is the time of year when visitors to our island look at their preferred weather app and see a bunch of 60 percent rain chances and freak out thinking their vacation is going to be ruined. As my wife likes to say, that just means that you justContinue reading “June 10, 2022”

June 7, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! The wind has started picking up a bit and that helps with the heat. Wind today will be 10-15 mph under mostly sunny skies. Seas will be 3 feet (1 meter) on the south side. Winds rise to 20-25 mph and seas to 5 feet (1.6 meters) with aContinue reading “June 7, 2022”

June 6, 2022: Good morning Roatan! It’s been hot! The temperature is in the low 90s, the sun is shining and there is little wind. That is the formula for a hot Roatan day. Coral View got cooled off yesterday with a quarter of an inch of rain midday, but most of the rest ofContinue reading “June 6, 2022”

June 5, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Yesterday morning, the folks around Sandy Bay got three quarters of an inch, while much of the rest of the island stayed dry. The main weather story through Tuesday will be the fairly calm winds and seas. There is a very small chance of a scattered shower during theContinue reading “June 4, 2022”

June 3, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! On the satellite image, we can see pretty clearly the structure of what will soon be Tropical Storm Alex. The rain we received in the middle of the night was from an outer wave of moisture coming off the system. (I can’t say an outer band, because the stormContinue reading “June 3, 2022”

June 2, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! This morning we awoke to clouds and light rain. This is thanks to moisture coming south from Invest 91L, a storm just east of Yucatan that could become Tropical Storm Alex. The storm itself will move north toward Cuba and Florida, but its circulation should drag waves of cloudsContinue reading “June 2, 2022”

May brought us our lowest monthly rainfall total since last June. We recorded just .47 of an inch of rain, well below our May average of 2.63 inches of rain. June is typically a fairly dry month as well, with 3.06 inches of rain on average, though last year we only recorded .17 of anContinue reading “May 2022 rainfall”

June 1, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Most of us got between a tenth and a quarter of an inch of rain yesterday morning. Overnight last night we just barely missed out on a pretty good downpour. On the satellite from 8 p.m. last night to 8 a.m. this morning you can see the storm withContinue reading “June 1, 2022”

May 30, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Still a lot of clouds around this morning and still no rain. The next two days we have only very low rain chances, so watch us catch a shower 😅. Last night I got up to 34 mph winds on Jonesville Point. The next two days will also continueContinue reading “May 30, 2022”