Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Alina Solorzano and shows a beautiful sunset on the east end of the big island. We had a pretty quiet night, except for Utila which had a thundershower just after midnight that brought a half inch to the weather station near the airport.We shouldContinue reading “September 7, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is a double rainbow extending from Jonesville over to Jonesville Point from Alex Fleig. If we don’t see rainbows over the next 24 hours, it will be because we don’t have enough sunlight as clouds and showers from our tropical wave pass over us. After tomorrowContinue reading “September 5, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Gaby Adrian and shows sunrise over Politilly.If you are in Politilly this morning you are probably seeing clouds off to your east as a shower moves in. Showers will increase over the next couple of days as our tropical wave moves in, but itContinue reading “September 4, 2024”

August was another pretty good month for us. As usual, we will put Sandy Bay’s 5.66 inches in the record books and it is about average for the island, especially the west side. Most locations on the east side got 2-3 inches. Guanaja (7.72 inches) and Utila (10.1) were big winners in the rain category.Continue reading “Rainfall for August 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jacy Richards who caught this sunset on a walk between Punta Blanca and Punta Gorda. We are still keeping an eye on the system that is located due north of the of Colombia/Venezuela border. Chances are good this means nothing more than showers ThursdayContinue reading “September 3, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. I’m not going to do a photo of the day today because there is slightly more to worry about from our potential tropical storm. The US National Hurricane Center still only gives it a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression. The big change this morning is the US GFSContinue reading “September 2, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Island Jay and shows the Icon of the Seas in port at Coxen Hole framed by a map of our lovely island. In three more days we will be voting on the photo of the month for a free dental cleaning at Dilbert-Thompson dentalContinue reading “August 29, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Steve Cox caught this cruise ship headed out to sea from the Blue Bahia Beach Grill on Sandy Bay.We had a quiet night, but our chances of overnight showers should start going up, especially tomorrow night. We are also watching the tropics. On satellite this morning we can see a thundershower east ofContinue reading “August 28, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Joyann Villalta showing sunset over the other side of the island from Calabash.Most of us had a calmer night last night, though Guanaja got almost a half an inch and Sandy Bay got a small rain shower.Today looks like another day with a fairlyContinue reading “August 27, 2024”

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dian Lynn in West Bay. All of us got some good downpours overnight, with 3 inches in Utila, 3.6 inches in Oakridge. 2.3 West Bay, and 1.4 inches in Guanaja, just to name a few. We will continue to have scattered showers, but theyContinue reading “August 25, 2024”