Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Sept. 24, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We have some rain and clouds moving south from our north, much like we had yesterday. Yesterday those clouds made it here and gave some of us around an inch of rain mid morning. These clouds are a little further east than those were, but it is possibleContinue reading “September 24, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We have a few showers in the western portion of the Caribbean at 7 a.m. moving south. These will probably fall apart as the morning goes on, but there is a chance that western Roatan or Utila gets a midmorning shower out of one of these. We will have light winds, 1 foot seasContinue reading “Sept. 23, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We had a little bit of rain early this morning in the madrugada (that’s definitely one of my favorite Spanish words, meaning the early morning hours before dawn. We have nothing like it in English.). The rain was mostly midisland to the east side. This morning we’re mostly clear. There is a small areaContinue reading “September 22, 2023”

Tropical update for Sept. 21, 2023: Tropical weather has been pretty quiet here in the Caribbean. Fortunately we haven’t had any disturbances in awhile, which is good because the waters are quite hot. The red X shown in the central Atlantic Ocean is headed west toward the Lesser Antilles. Current computer models show this stormContinue reading “Tropical update for Sept. 21, 2023”

Sept. 21, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Overnight we had quite a bit of storminess to our east, but it stayed to our east. We are getting a few clouds from it at 7 a.m. but it doesn’t look like there’s much rain. We’re windier than we’ve been in awhile with 15 mph winds andContinue reading “Sept. 21, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. At 7:30 a.m. we have a lot of rain off the Mosquito Coast but most of that is moving away from us. We have a few scattered showers northeast of Barbarat, so a stray shower is not out of the question for some of us this morning. We will be partly cloudy todayContinue reading “September 20, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. At 7:30 a.m., we have a few small showers, one that is bringing a third of an inch to Palmetto Bay and another bringing some rain to Guanaja. These are very small showers that will pass quickly and decrease as the morning moves along. We will continue mostly calm with east winds 5-10Continue reading “September 19, 2023”

I went snorkeling off Oakridge for the first time in awhile and saw lots of coral turned light blue. This picture isn’t mine, but it’s very similar to what I saw. I asked a dive instructor and he said that this is a defense mechanism when coral starts getting too hot. There is only one buoy thatContinue reading “Coral bleaching seen”

Good morning Bay Islands. Last night just after midnight, we got a nice shower here on Jonesville Point giving us just over a tenth of an inch. You probably saw the light show last night from storms on the coast, but for most of us, they never made it to the islands, though Utila gotContinue reading “September 18, 2023”

Today through Wednesday we will continue to have mild winds from the east 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. Rain chances will be small and mostly at night or early morning.Starting Thursday into next weekend our rain chances increase. The Caribbean tropics have been very quiet and there are no tropical storms in the forecast,Continue reading “September 17, 2023”