Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Good morning Bay Islands. We’ve had some heavy rain islandwide already, especially on the west side, with West End and West Bay already picking up 3 inches between 6 and 9:40 a.m. Today we will have some rain.Tomorrow we will have more rain.Thursday and Friday we will have the most rain.Most models say between 4 to 8 inches, andContinue reading “October 31, 2023”

I did a video update that focuses on wind. Friday looks to be an especially bad wind day with seas on the north side around 6 feet.

Good morning Bay Islands. I did a Facebook Live for the forecast today. I apologize for the poor graphics. We’re having a power outage on Jonesville Point and I had to use a backup computer. This is the GFS computer prediction from now until Tuesday. You will notice it shows the storm becoming a categoryContinue reading “October 30, 2023”

Here is the latest map on Pilar, which is expected to take a U-turn when our norther arrives Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Our chances of a tropical system in the next seven days are up to 30 percent. The GFS is showing a hurricane for the weekend. Of course that is just one prediction andContinue reading “Oct. 29, evening edition”

Good morning. I did a Facebook live forecast today to get rid of glitches. The headlines: Some showers this morning, hopefully drier this afternoon and tomorrow. I’m very concerned about high rain totals starting Wednesday and the possibility of a tropical storm developing into the weekend.

Good morning Bay Islands. I have another video forecast for you today. The highlights: Nice weather today into Tuesday morning with only a low chance of a small shower here or there. I’m very worried about the norther coming Wednesday into late week and the weekend. Forecast rain totals are quite high and it isContinue reading “October 28, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. Here’s today’s rainfall as of 6:30 p.m. We see scattered showers and a few rumbles of thunder on satellite and radar at 7 a.m. There isn’t as much activity as yesterday and I expect rain to be less than it was yesterday, but we will still have scattered showers, with perhaps some sunshine thisContinue reading “Oct. 26, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. As of 6:40 a.m. the west side has gotten very little rain and the east side has gotten a lot. Most of the rain on the east side came from the first storm you see forming around 2 a.m. the rain that followed missed us mostly to the north. There is another round coming,Continue reading “October 25, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We had a quiet night after midday rain yesterday brought three quarters of an inch to West Bay as well as Oakridge and half an inch to Punta Blanca. Most other locations got much less, around a tenth of an inch. We have good news about the potential tropical storm centered off the coastContinue reading “October 23, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. This morning we wake up to scattered clouds and there was a shower in Sandy Bay at 6:30 a.m. On satellite you can see some showers about 20 miles north of Utila, and a large area of rain well to our west. Our winds are quite calm and seas are 1-2Continue reading “October 22, 2023”