Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

March 11, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! This morning we have 10-15 mph winds and 2 foot seas and the day should get even calmer. Winds this afternoon will be 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. Overnight winds will pick up to 15 mph and seas 2-3 feet, but will get calm again during theContinue reading “March 11, 2023”

March 10, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! We have hazy skies and 15 mph winds with 2 foot seas this morning. Those conditions will continue today and tomorrow, with little or no chance of even a small shower.Starting Saturday our daytime winds will become calm, with 10-15 mph winds at night. Starting Saturday afternoon, weContinue reading “March 10, 2023”

March 9, 2023: Good morning, Roatan! We are back to bright, sunny skies after a couple of days of haze caused by high clouds. Our forecast remains dry until Wednesday, when we have a chance of scattered showers from a cold front that will be weakening when it gets here. Until then, the primary changeContinue reading “March 9, 2023”

Good morning, Bay Islands! There have been a few scattered showers north of Tela and Puerto Cortes, far to the west of Utila. Over our islands we have lots of high clouds with no rain this morning. This morning winds are around 15-20 mph from the east and seas are 2 feet (.7 meters). Today will continue to haveContinue reading “March 8, 2023”

We got some rainfall around 4 a.m., especially mid-island. Looks like the far west side missed out. We will have a cloudy day, but not necessarily a rainy day. Throughout today we will have the high clouds coming from the west. These are not rain clouds, but will bring us hazy, cloudy skies. This morningContinue reading “March 7, 2023”

March 6, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! I did a video for today’s forecast. The main points: 1. 15-20 mph winds this week with seas 3-4 feet. 2. Tomorrow and Wednesday we wil have high cirrus clouds, but little to no rain. Maybe a small chance Tuesday and Wednesday morning. These clouds will make TuesdayContinue reading “March 6, 2023”

March 5, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Now that was better! Last night our winds only got up around 17 mph and most of the night were around 10-15 mph. We wake up with 3 foot seas around the island. There are some clouds off to our east, but mostly we’re still hazy from dustContinue reading “March 5, 2023”

March 4, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Winds are quite calm this morning, though seas are still around 3-4 feet. Today will be one of the calmest days we’ve had in awhile Seas toward Ceiba should be down around 1 foot, a welcome relief from what we had last week. It also is quite hazyContinue reading “March 4, 2023”

March 2, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! All this dry weather and dust are increasing my number of sneezes. Seas are 4-5 feet this morning after getting up to 7 feet last night. We had another night of 35 mph winds. We will be windy today through Friday. Saturday we are looking for a bitContinue reading “March 2, 2023”

Our rainfall totals ranged from 1.57 inches in French Harbour to 3.38 inches in West End. (Utila did a little better with 4.01 inches) We will put 2.57 from Sandy Bay in the books, about half our normal 5.34 inches. That is the lowest February rainfall since the drought year of 2019. Let’s hope thatContinue reading “Rainfall for February 2023”