Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Feb. 5, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We awake to bright sunny skies with a few clouds. Clouds should increase this afternoon and there is a decent chance of rain this evening and overnight tonight. As you can see in the forecast map, the best chance of rain will be between midnight and 6 a.m. tomorrow.Continue reading “Feb. 5, 2022”

Feb. 4, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! I start out with an image of the snowpack in the US. You will notice how far south in Texas the snowstorm reached, even getting into northern Mexico. I post this because this same system is going to stall out just to our north, but very briefly — SaturdayContinue reading “Feb. 4, 2022”

Feb. 3, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We had quite a windy overnight with a peak gust of 31 mph. Seas look to be about 4 feet (1.3 meters) on the south side this morning. Today will continue windy and clear with winds 20-25 mph and seas 3-4 feet (1-1.3 meters). Tomorrow after a windy morning,Continue reading “Feb. 3, 2022”

Feb. 2, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! In the U.S. they call this Groundhog Day. The official groundhog, Punxsutawny Phil, saw his shadow so, as lore goes, the US gets six more weeks of winter. The idea is that if it is cloudy, the spring rains have come early, but of course whether it is cloudyContinue reading “Feb. 2, 2022”

Rain totals for January 2022: We had 8 inches for the record book and that number was pretty even across the island. That was below our average of 11.19 inches. January is generally the last month of the wet season. We transition into the dry season in February with an average of 5.23 inches. I’veContinue reading “Rain totals for January 2022”

Feb. 1, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We had another cool morning, though for most of us not as cool as yesterday. Today the sun will be out and we will warm up.Today will be breezy, with east winds 17-22 mph. Tomorrow should be a little calmer, with east winds 7-12 mph, though winds will pickContinue reading “Feb. 1, 2022”

Jan. 31, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! I’m sitting here at 7:30 a.m. doing the weather in my sweater. Most of us got down to 67 (19.4 C), just one degree away from Roatan’s all-time low of 66 (18.8 C). Most of us have gotten between .1 and .2 of an inch since midnight, but WestContinue reading “Jan. 31, 2022”

Jan. 30, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! I have a question. What starts in Greenland and brings us rain and winds 3,700 miles (6,000 km) here in Roatan! It is the massive storm that brought a blizzard to New England. As you can see in the satellite, the cold front coming down from it gave usContinue reading “Jan. 30, 2022”

Jan. 29, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! At 8 a.m. the sea on the southside is almost dead calm. But as you can tell in the wind map shown here, the wind is coming. It is about 130 miles north of us as of 8 a.m. and should begin to arrive around noon. After 12 weContinue reading “Jan. 29, 2022”

Jan. 28, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Most of us got a nice rain in the early morning hours. It ranged from about a quarter inch in Utila and on the west side to about .05 of an inch here on the east side.Today we should have mostly sunny skies with light east winds and seasContinue reading “Jan. 28, 2022”