Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

June 25, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! Our winds and seas are quite calm this morning, at around 10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. Winds should remain moderate through Wednesday morning at 5-15 mph and seas will be 1-2 feet. The big story is the approach of the moisture of former storm Bret, now justContinue reading “June 25, 2023”

June 24, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Sorry, but I can only do a brief forecast today. The internet here in the mountains of Oregon is really bad. Two main points.1. Winds should calm a bit through Monday. 10-20 mph today, 10-15 mph tomorrow and Monday before getting back to 15-25 mph midweek.2 We stillContinue reading “June 24, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. Sorry for the late post. We’re in the mountains of Oregon for a nephew-in-law’s wedding. It’s 48 degrees up here (9C) 🥶.As best as I can tell from weather stations and radar, the islands have stayed mostly dry yesterday and last night. If you got any rain, let me know inContinue reading “June 23, 2023”

June 22, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. For days now our tropical wave has been on the Mosquito Coast teasing us. There are no good weather stations over there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they hadn’t gotten 5 or 6 inches of rain. This morning we got .02 of an inch on Jonesville PointContinue reading “June 22, 2023”

June 21, 2023: Good morning and Happy Longest Day of the Year! Sunrise is 5:15 a.m. and sunset is 6:21 p.m. giving us 13 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight. On our shortest day of the year, Dec. 21, we will have 11 hours 9 minutes of sun. Being closer to the equator, the differenceContinue reading “June 21, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. This morning we wake up to some bad news. Overnight our tropical wave weakened considerably as you can see in the satelite video from 6 p.m. last night to 6 a.m. today. That lowers our chances of rain this week considerably. Rain chances today and tomorrow are around 10 percent. ChancesContinue reading “June 19, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands! Our tropical wave is on our doorstep, the question is will it be able to come in. You can see the mass of moisture centered off the Mosquito Coast that we’ve been waiting for for weeks. It is already bringing good rainfall to the Mosquito Coast and there are even aContinue reading “June 18, 2023”

Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to east winds 20 mph and seas 2 feet on the north side and 4 feet on the south side. These winds will continue through the weekend and start to calm a little on Monday.This weekend will be dry, but we continue to hope for some rain next week. The forecastContinue reading “June 17, 2023”

June 16, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! We wake up to east winds at 20 mph but they got up to 39 mph last night. Seas are at 3-4 feet. Windy conditions will continue through Monday before we get some calm during the middle of next week. We are still in the midst of dryContinue reading “June 16, 2023”

The National Hurricane Center has some storms coming off the west coast of Africa with a 20 percent chance of tropical development over 7 days. Some computers are developing this, but it is more of a threat to the Eastern Caribbean and no threat to us. The second map is the GFS forecast for midnightContinue reading “June 15, 2023”