Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Dec. 23, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! What a beautiful morning. One location in Sandy Bay recorded a reading of 67 (19c) this morning, West End had a low of 69 (20c) and we got down to 71 (21c) here on Jonesville Point. Seas are quite calm here on the south side.Today winds will be fromContinue reading “Dec. 23, 2021”

Dec. 22, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! Most of us got a little rain early this morning as the front came through. The north wind also blew pretty strongly. Coral View picked up a gust above 30 mph right behind the front. Right now we are dealing with a few clouds on the back side ofContinue reading “Dec. 22, 2021”

Dec. 21, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! Welcome to the first day of winter (got your coat on?) also known as the shortest day of the year. This day makes us appreciate our island home. Not only is it warm today (more on that later), but our day is 11 hours 9 minutes, much longer thanContinue reading “Dec. 21, 2021”

Dec. 20, 2021: This morning we have some high clouds, but mostly sunny skies across our islands. If you are from North America, we are about to experience a cold front similar to the ones we are used to, where the rain is mostly concentrated right along the front and therefore the rain event isContinue reading “Dec. 20, 2021”

Dec. 19, 2021: Good morning, Roatan from Jonesville Point. Our weather station is not online yet until we get internet service up and running, but I can tell you this location will give us a good measure of the true speed of those east winds off the sea. In Lucy Point we were protected fromContinue reading “Dec. 19, 2021”

Dec. 16, 2021: Good evening, Roatan. Sorry for the late update. If you watch us on Wunderground you know that the Lucy Point station is offline. It will reappear as the Jonesville Point station. Hopefully this weekend if I can get internet up and running. Most of the island got between 1 and 2 inchesContinue reading “Dec. 16, 2021”

Dec. 15, 2021: Rain totals were mostly between an inch and a half and a little over 2 inches yesterday. West End only got .69 yesterday but has already gotten over half an inch this morning.Rain should continue today with east winds 7-15 mph and seas at 3 feet (1 meter). Tomorrow the rain chancesContinue reading “Dec. 15, 2021”

Dec. 14, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! Folks on the west side of the island got pretty wet yesterday morning, with many locations getting over an inch. Mid-island got about a half inch, but here on Lucy Point it didn’t rain at all throughout the day.But this morning it did. We woke up to .07 ofContinue reading “Dec. 14, 2021”

Good morning Roatan! Looks like the west side of the island especially got wet this morning. Larry Rapp in West Bay reports .65 of an inch, West End got 1.20, Sandy Bay .65, Coral View .50, but down to .05 in Politilly and .08 here on Lucy Point. Today we will have a chance ofContinue reading “Dec. 13, 2021”

Dec. 12, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! We have had another dry 24 hours. I’m going to guess that in the week ahead we aren’t going to have many completely dry days and nights, though I think we will see some sun in the week ahead as well.Today we’ll have partly cloudy skies with east windsContinue reading “Dec. 12, 2021”