Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Good morning Bay Islands. Here are the rainfall totals for yesterday and today until 7a.m. The further west (and south) you go, the higher the total. Truly impressive rainfall for Utila and the west side. Looks like it rained so much that kids don’t have to go to school today. The buoys are reporting north winds 15 mph and seasContinue reading “October 17, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. I did a video forecast to discuss our norther. The front is just to our north. Clouds and rain and winds will increase through the day. Windiest and rainiest days are tomorrow and Wednesday. Less rain Thursday into the weekend, though chances of seeing some rain those days are still prettyContinue reading “October 16, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up this morning to east winds around 10 mph and seas at 2 feet both north and south sides. Those winds and seas should get calmer as the day goes along. We can clearly see the norther (cold front, frente frio) to our north, just south of Miami andContinue reading “October 15, 2023”

Oct. 14, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We have clear skies across our islands and good viewing weather for our solar eclipse, which will start around 10 a.m., peak darkness will come at 11:40 and end at 1:30 p.m. Peak darkness will last just over four minutes from about 11:38 to 11:42. We are mostly clear, but youContinue reading “October 14, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to 3 foot seas on the south side and 2 foot seas on the north side, higher than we’ve had in quite awhile. This evening we will have east winds around 20 mph and seas around 4 feet on the southside, 2-3 feet on the northside.Today and tomorrowContinue reading “October 13, 2023”

Oct. 12, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. This morning we are a bit windier at 10-15 mph and seas are near 3 feet on the south side, 2 feet on the north side. We will continue to have seas 2-3 feet through Saturday. Sunday looks like a calm day as we wait for the coldContinue reading “October 12, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to mostly clear skies and seas 1-2 feet. We will stay mostly dry through Saturday, but our winds, especially in the evenings, will pick up to 15-20 mph from the east tonight and tomorrow night and 20-25 mph on Saturday night. Sunday we will start to see ourContinue reading “October 11, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We have some clouds and a few thundershowers to the east of Guanaja. Those are weakening as they move west. Guanaja and perhaps even east Roatan will see some clouds over the next few hours and perhaps a small shower or two, but nothing major. Our forecast continues to be mostlyContinue reading “October 10, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. At 6:50 a.m. we have some storms well to the east of Guanaja moving slowly toward the west. If they can hold together they might reach Guanaja around 9 a.m. Otherwise most of us are mostly sunny.We start out with mild winds and seas around 1 foot, but this week willContinue reading “October 9, 2023”

Oct. 7, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Here on Jonesville Point we got .2 of an inch around 2 a.m., but most of the weather stations were dry overnight.Our satellite shows mostly clear skies this morning, with a storm northwest of Utila and heading away from the islands.Our seas are up ever so slightly toContinue reading “Oct. 7, 2023”