Roatan Weather Guy

April 27, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Kathy Beselinoff in Half Moon Bay. Like her photo to give her a chance at a $50 gift certificate to Blue Bahia Beach Grill. The top five photos compete in a poll on Tuesday. If you would like to enter your photo send itContinue reading “April 27, 2024”

April 26, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from John Atkins in Mangrove Bight, but not the Mangrove Bight on Guanaja. Evidently we have one on Roatan too, between Gibson Bight and West End. We have some shower activity on satellite This beautiful sound comes from Jimmy Andrade, near his Las La Sirena deContinue reading “April 26, 2024”

April 25, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our full moon photo today was taken by Phil Sikora at Carib Bight below Juticalpa. We had a question in yesterday’s comments about the sargassum. We will take a stab at guessing when it gets less stinky. Let’s start with our satellite photo. We see some popcorn clouds at 6:50 a.m., especially aroundContinue reading “April 25, 2024”

April 24, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dian Lynn and was taken from Sundowner’s in West End. We got a little rain yesterday evening, especially in West Bay, which picked up .13 of an inch around 5:30. We’re not seeing as much rain as we hoped for this morning. On our satellite weContinue reading “April 24, 2024”

April 23, 2024

Our photo of the day comes from Brad Turnelle in Parrot Tree and shows our near-full moon. This year, because the full moon occurs so close to spring equinox, Semana Santa and Passover were separated by an entire month. We see a few popcorn clouds on satellite, especially to our west and south. It isContinue reading “April 23, 2024”

Why Roatan has to worry about hurricanes a lot less than Florida

I found this graphic online that gives the hurricane danger of various countries on a scale of 0 to 10. You will notice that the countries with the highest risk are to our northeast. That is because the strongest hurricanes tend to form off the west coast of Africa and move in a west/northwesterly direction.Continue reading “Why Roatan has to worry about hurricanes a lot less than Florida”

April 22, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Kristi Voves in Palmetto Bay and she has a sunset view that I’m jealous of. This morning we have a small shower to the east of Puerto Cortex and some high, hazy clouds over our heads, but otherwise we are dry. We will continueContinue reading “April 22, 2024”

April 21, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jim Goodwyn in Camp Bay. At first I thought these were birds, but they are actually the paragliders you often see on the Camp Bay side, which is perfectly situated to catch the easterly winds but has a little less wave action, being onContinue reading “April 21, 2024”

April 20, 2024

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Tom DeMille in Palmetto Bay and shows one of our favorite island residents, the hummingbird, with a nice cumulus cloud in the background. We have a few of those cumulus clouds around this morning. Speaking of Palmetto Bay, they along with other midisland residents got aContinue reading “April 20, 2024”

April 19, 2024 and what is a fair-weather water spout?

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Christina Matthews and west taken from Iron Shore on West Bay. It is a waterspout, a fairly common occurrence in our tropical waters, so I thought in comments I would talk a little about what a waterspout is and is not. There are twoContinue reading “April 19, 2024 and what is a fair-weather water spout?”