Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Alex Fleig and shows the moonshine over Jonesville Point. We probably won’t be seeing the moon much tonight. This morning at 7:30 the heaviest rain seems to be to our west over Tela and Puerto Cortes and off to our northeast, but we have already gottenContinue reading “Roatan weather for November 21, 2024”
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November 20, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jeff Bodin in Carib Bight and shows Sara receding over the mainland this past weekend. We have another storm coming, but this time it is not a tropical storm but a norther. For you tourists reading this, that is what locals call a coldContinue reading “November 20, 2024”
November 19, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Keena Haylock and shows sunrise at Parrot Tree.We will have a nice day today and probably a decent day tomorrow but Thursday into Friday we will get north winds and off-and-on rain showers. Here is the satellite image showing mostly clear skies over us, but aContinue reading “November 19, 2024”
November 18, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Kenneth Meissner and shows our full moon over Gibson Bight.Aside from a 20 mph east wind and 4 foot seas are weather is finally pretty quiet. We should continue to have nice weather today and tomorrow with only a very small chance of aContinue reading “November 18, 2024”
November 17, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jim Jaskunas in Sandy Bay and shows a full rainbow yesterday. Tropical Storm Sara left around a foot of rain across our islands and as it exited to our west it strengthened a bit, formed an eye and created what seems to be 50Continue reading “November 17, 2024”
November 16, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. We will return with an appropriate photo of the day from Mara Owens in Sandy Bay with a rainbow over Spooky Channel. She reminds us that the rainbow is God’s symbol of peace given to Noah after the flood. We have definitely had a flood: 7-10 inches on Roatan, around 15Continue reading “November 16, 2024”
November 15, 2024 8 a.m.
Here is the 6 a.m. position of the storm, shown as 40 miles east of Guanaja, but in the discussion the National Hurricane Center admits they are having a hard time finding a center. Interaction with land has left this storm ragged. That is good news for us. Last night we had some gusty winds and heavy rain,Continue reading “November 15, 2024 8 a.m.”
November 14, 2024 7:40 p.m.
There isn’t much news that is new in the latest forecasts. One thing that has changed is that more of the latest models are forecasting a higher end tropical storm or lower end Category 1 hurricane as the storm passes our islands. Some locations are now showing wind gusts around 40 mph, or low levelContinue reading “November 14, 2024 7:40 p.m.”
November 13, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. I am sorry to say that there is now a very real possibility of the Bay Islands getting a direct hit from a tropical storm or hurricane sometime between Friday and Monday. It isn’t a certainty, but the forecasts are starting to agree that the storm will come our way. YouContinue reading “November 13, 2024”
November 12, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. No photo of the day today because we need to talk about Potential Tropical Storm Sara, which should form somewhere near the Mosquito Coast Thursday into Friday and will probably be to our north and east until Monday. Let’s start with the satellite. You can see a few clouds in our area, includingContinue reading “November 12, 2024”
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