Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy

Is the wind unusual for this time of year? It is hard to say because we don’t have good records of previous years’ winds from good locations 30 feet off the ground and away from trees and buildings (the requirement for a good wind measurement) but my location was running after the first week ofContinue reading “Has it been unusually windy?”

April 7, 2023 Good morning Bay Islands! Lots of folks are ready to head to the beach today, and we will start to see some lower winds. This morning we have south winds at 20 mph and seas at 4 feet. Winds during the day today will be 15-20 mph and seas at 3 feet.Continue reading “April 7, 2023”

April 6, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to 20 mph winds and 5 foot seas. Last night the winds got up to 40 mph and 7 foot seas. Today and tonight will continue windy, though not QUITE as windy, with winds 28-33 mph tonight and seas around 6 feet. Tomorrow we startContinue reading “April 6, 2023”

April 5, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! We awake to 25 mph winds and 5 foot seas after reaching 39 mph and 7 foot seas last night. We have two more nights of this before we start calming down. Good Friday will be a bit calmer, Saturday even calmer, and Sunday through Wednesday we willContinue reading “April 5, 2023”

April 3, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! We have a few clouds moving from southeast to northwest this morning. It is possible but not likely there is a small shower in there somewhere, but they will pass by quickly and skies will clear. We awake to 20 mph winds and 4 foot seas. Seas should calm byContinue reading “April 3, 2023”

April 2, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We have a few clouds passing over this morning, but it is unlikely we will even get a sprinkle. Last night winds were mostly around 25-30 mph and seas got up to 5 feet. This morning we have calmed to 15 mph and seas at 3 feet. Winds and seas willContinue reading “April 4, 2023”

March 2023 precipitation. No surprise. March was a dry month and we are headed into statistically our driest month of the year. Officially we are putting 2.76 inches in the bucket, our driest since the horrible drought year of 2019. Last year we got almost 10 inches, but average we have 3.53 for March. HereContinue reading “Rainfall for March 2023”

March 31, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We have one more day of moderate winds and 3 foot seas before the stronger winds and seas start again tonight. As you can see in the chart, starting tonight we will have nighttime winds 30-35 mph and seas around 6 feet and daytime winds 18-25 mph andContinue reading “March 31, 2023”

March 30, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! We got some rain over the island, especially in the 6 am. hour and especially between West End and Sandy Bay, where we’ve almost picked up half an inch as of 7 a.m. We’re still dry on the east side, but there is one more round of clouds and potential showers overContinue reading “March 30, 2023”

March 29, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! Last night we got up to 35 mph winds. That might sound windy, but it was about 5 mph less than the previous night. So we are headed in the right direction. Today we should be slightly less windy with daytime winds 20-25 mph and seas at 4Continue reading “March 29, 2023”