Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Alina Solorzano and shows a sunset near Diamond Rock. If you would like to submit a photo and compete at the end of the month for a $50 gift certificate to Umbul Umbul in West End, send your photo with name and location toContinue reading “November 23, 2024”
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November 22, 2024
Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Joyann Villalta Sanders and shows blue skies over Calabash Bight. We are seeing blue skies this morning after a lot of rain yesterday, 3 inches in many places. Today should be nice, but windy. We start the day with north winds 20 mph andContinue reading “November 22, 2024”
Roatan weather for November 21, 2024
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”
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.”