March 9, 2023: Good morning, Roatan! We are back to bright, sunny skies after a couple of days of haze caused by high clouds. Our forecast remains dry until Wednesday, when we have a chance of scattered showers from a cold front that will be weakening when it gets here. Until then, the primary changeContinue reading “March 9, 2023”
Author Archives: Roatan Weather Guy
March 8, 2023
Good morning, Bay Islands! There have been a few scattered showers north of Tela and Puerto Cortes, far to the west of Utila. Over our islands we have lots of high clouds with no rain this morning. This morning winds are around 15-20 mph from the east and seas are 2 feet (.7 meters). Today will continue to haveContinue reading “March 8, 2023”
March 7, 2023
We got some rainfall around 4 a.m., especially mid-island. Looks like the far west side missed out. We will have a cloudy day, but not necessarily a rainy day. Throughout today we will have the high clouds coming from the west. These are not rain clouds, but will bring us hazy, cloudy skies. This morningContinue reading “March 7, 2023”
March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! I did a video for today’s forecast. The main points: 1. 15-20 mph winds this week with seas 3-4 feet. 2. Tomorrow and Wednesday we wil have high cirrus clouds, but little to no rain. Maybe a small chance Tuesday and Wednesday morning. These clouds will make TuesdayContinue reading “March 6, 2023”
March 5, 2023
March 5, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Now that was better! Last night our winds only got up around 17 mph and most of the night were around 10-15 mph. We wake up with 3 foot seas around the island. There are some clouds off to our east, but mostly we’re still hazy from dustContinue reading “March 5, 2023”
March 4, 2023
March 4, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Winds are quite calm this morning, though seas are still around 3-4 feet. Today will be one of the calmest days we’ve had in awhile Seas toward Ceiba should be down around 1 foot, a welcome relief from what we had last week. It also is quite hazyContinue reading “March 4, 2023”
March 2, 2023
March 2, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! All this dry weather and dust are increasing my number of sneezes. Seas are 4-5 feet this morning after getting up to 7 feet last night. We had another night of 35 mph winds. We will be windy today through Friday. Saturday we are looking for a bitContinue reading “March 2, 2023”
Rainfall for February 2023
Our rainfall totals ranged from 1.57 inches in French Harbour to 3.38 inches in West End. (Utila did a little better with 4.01 inches) We will put 2.57 from Sandy Bay in the books, about half our normal 5.34 inches. That is the lowest February rainfall since the drought year of 2019. Let’s hope thatContinue reading “Rainfall for February 2023”
March 1, 2023
March 1, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands and welcome to March! We start the month dry and windy and will continue that way for at least the first week. This morning we have winds at 20 mph and seas at 4 feet. We will continue our 20 mph windy days and 30 mph windy nights.Continue reading “March 1, 2023”
Feb. 28, 2023
Feb. 28, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! A friend of mine who hosts tours noticed that during the week when he’s doing tours it’s been windy and choppy and on the weekends when there are no tours it’s been calmer. That will certainly be true this week. Last night we got up to 32 mphContinue reading “Feb. 28, 2023”