Oct. 28, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! The cold front that has been racing across the United States the last several days is now in the Gulf of Mexico and is set to pass through on Friday night bringing us a cooler weekend before rebounding and giving us a good chance of rain on Tuesday. TodayContinue reading “Dewpoint and humidity”
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Oct. 28, 2021
Oct. 28, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! The cold front that has been racing across the United States the last several days is now in the Gulf of Mexico and is set to pass through on Friday night bringing us a cooler weekend before rebounding and giving us a good chance of rain on Tuesday. TodayContinue reading “Oct. 28, 2021”
Oct. 27, 2021
Oct. 27, 2021: Good morning Roatan! If you keep up with the local weather stations on Wunderground, you will notice a new addition in Sandy Bay. Many thanks to Dave and the great folks at SOL for putting up a new weather station, which will be a great educational opportunity for the kids there.Our weatherContinue reading “Oct. 27, 2021”
Oct. 26, 2021
Oct. 26, 2021: Our clear and windy conditions will continue today and tomorrow. Winds will be 15-25 mph from the east and seas will be 2-4 feet (.6 – 1.3 meters). Winds should get calmer on Thursday in advance of our cold front, set to arrive Friday night into Saturday morning. We’ll have a chanceContinue reading “Oct. 26, 2021”
Oct. 25, 2021
Oct. 25, 2021: The wind and surf are definitely up over what they have been the last few weeks. That will continue with winds 12-17 mph and seas 2-3 feet (.6-1 meter) during the day and 17-22 mph and seas 4 feet (1.3 meters) in the evenings. Skies will be mostly clear and no meaningfulContinue reading “Oct. 25, 2021”
Oct. 24, 2021
Oct. 24, 2021: No rain the last 24 hours. At 8 a.m. we have some clouds and perhaps some showers east of Guanaja, but they seem to be falling apart.The week ahead looks dry and windy. It’s TRW (Typical Roatan Weather) but with even lower rain chances. We’ll have winds from the east/southeast 12-17 duringContinue reading “Oct. 24, 2021”
Oct. 23, 2021
Oct. 23, 2021: The big news this morning is that we have a chance at our first “norther” of the season next weekend. The video shown here is the water vapor prediction in the European model. It shows the drier air, shown in green and blue, pushing the wetter air (yellow and red) out ofContinue reading “Oct. 23, 2021”
Last night’s lightning
Oct. 23, 2021: Last night we had a classic storm scenario for the Bay Islands. It is the reason why typically the farther west you go, the rainier it gets. A storm with very high cloud tops and impressive lightning near the center formed near the mountainous north coast of the mainland and reached outContinue reading “Last night’s lightning”
Oct. 22, 2021
Oct. 22, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! It seems like most folks mid-island got rain last evening, but those on the edges (West Bay to the west and Camp Bay to the east) missed out. We got a quarter inch on Lucy Point, which was about average for those who got rain. The satellite image isContinue reading “Oct. 22, 2021”
Oct. 21, 2021
Oct. 21, 2021: There were scattered showers around last night. Sandy Bay reported .07 of an inch, Mud Hole got .04, Coral View .23, Politilly .15, Lucy Point .06, and even Camp Bay got in with .20, their first measurable rain in awhile. Today we’ll have a pretty decent chance of seeing rain, especially inContinue reading “Oct. 21, 2021”