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Sept. 18, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! We awoke this morning with some clouds off to our east. It is possible that Guanaja picked up a shower. Those will be rare today. We will have mostly sunny skies and east winds 15-20 mph with 3-4 foot (1 to 1.3 meter) seas. Tomorrow should be slightly calmerContinue reading “Sept. 18, 2021”

Sept. 17, 2021: Good morning Roatan! I come to you this morning with some hope for wetter weather … in a week. A cold front is coming. No, it won’t make it all the way down here, but it will push enough unstable moisture this far south to give us good chances of rain nextContinue reading “Sept. 17, 2021”

Sept. 16, 2021: Yesterday was beautiful and fairly calm. This morning is starting out the same, but winds should start to pick up as we get into the evening. We start out the day with winds in the 10 mph range and seas at 1-2 feet (.3 to .6 meters), but this evening they willContinue reading “Sept. 16, 2021”

Over at the Facebook group Ask Anything Roatan, someone asked when the rainy season starts. Can you believe we can get an answer from 1722? Here is what Philip Ashton, stranded by pirates on an uninhabited Roatan said then: The rains begin about the middle of October, & continue for five months together, and thenContinue reading “Support our site, get a free book”

Sept. 15, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! We actually had a report of some rain last night. Larry Rapp in West Bay reported .15 of an inch around 9:30 p.m. I’m posting the satellite from around that time, and you can see the classic scenario for rain on the island just after nightfall. Storms tend toContinue reading “Sept. 15, 2021”

Sept. 14, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! Another day with hardly a cloud in the sky. As you can see from this morning’s satellite, it is unusually clear across the entire Central America region. Today we’ll have mostly clear skies and east-northeast winds at 7-12 mph and 1-2 foot (.3 to .6 meter) seas. There’s aContinue reading “Sept. 14, 2021”

Sept. 13, 2021: Good morning Roatan! Our skies have been clear with virtually not a cloud in the sky the last 24 hours. We’ll continue mostly sunny today with east winds 15-20 mph and seas at 3 feet (1 meter). Tomorrow winds will be a little calmer at 12-17 mph and seas at 2 feetContinue reading “Sept. 13, 2021”

Sept. 12, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! Quite a windy day yesterday with winds reaching 30 mph at sea and those windy conditions will continue today, with winds reaching 25-30 mph again and seas at 5 feet (1.6 meters). Continue to be careful at sea. The winds and seas shouldn’t be quite as bad tomorrow, withContinue reading “Sept. 12, 2021”

Sept. 11, 2021: Good morning Roatan! We wake up with some clouds and a lot of wind. Today will be a pretty windy day, with winds in unprotected areas getting up toward 30 mph this afternoon and evening and seas getting up to 6 feet. Be careful out on the waters. Tomorrow will be similarlyContinue reading “Sept. 11, 2021”

Sept. 10, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! This morning we find ourselves in a familiar spot — in a dry slot between areas of rain. Yesterday a little rain fell in some spots — .02 of an inch in Sandy Bay, .01 in Coral View, Larry Rapp reported about 5 minutes of rain in West BayContinue reading “Sept. 10, 2021”