Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

The headlines: Rain continues today and tomorrow, especially at night. Midday Wednesday through Friday things look nice. Our next norther approaches Saturday, looking to the tropics next Monday for potential tropical storms.

Good morning Bay Islands. Here’s our video for today.Unfortunately we have more rain to our east that is heading this way, probably for midmorning. Possible heavy rain tonight. Scattered showers Monday and Tuesday. Real improvement Wednesday and especially Thursday. Some sort of storm is predicted at the end of next weekend into the following Monday.Continue reading “November 5, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. Here is the video for today. The headlines. At 7:45 a.m. we have rain moving in from the east. Not as much rain today as yesterday and the trend will be for less rain each day into Monday, but we will still have scattered showers, mid to late week look niceContinue reading “November 4, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. Here are our rainfall totals overnight. Very consistent numbers across the big island. We’ve been a bit fortunate in this storm. Puerto Cortes has picked up over 16 inches yesterday and this morning. A bit more for Utila. On our satellite we can see that we are in the middle ofContinue reading “November 3, 2023”

Good morning. Here is the rainfall from midnight to 7 a.m. And here is the rainfall since Wednesday. We have quite a bit of rain to our north. And also scattered showers to our east. This rain is moving quite slowly to the southwest. We’re still looking for periods of heavy rain today, tonight, tomorrowContinue reading “November 2, 2023”

The 6 p.m. update lowers the likelihood of a tropical storm to 30 percent and moves the box south to Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Panama (!). No tropical storm for us this weekend. We are still looking for heavy rains and seas from our norther tomorrow and Friday. On our satellite we can see that we areContinue reading “November 1, 2023 evening update”

Rain total for October 2023: We are officially entering 28.54 inches in the record books for the month and that was about average across the island. From January to September we got exactly 26 inches. In October we got more than that. Our rainfall went from 30 percent of the year’s average to 63 percent.Continue reading “Rainfall for October 2023”

These totals are since midnight. Yesterday the west side got an additional 3 inches and the east side most of us got 2 inches. You can see a storm just to our northeast that brought all the rain.Rain today.More rain tomorrow.The most rain tomorrow night into Friday.Seas will be 2-3 feet today with west winds.WindsContinue reading “November 1, 2023”