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I don’t know about where you’re at, but at Lucy Point the sea looks like a sheet of glass. Pretty calm. Both West Bay and Utila reported sprinkles but no measurable rain this morning. Those calm conditions should last for awhile. We’ll have east-northeast winds 5-10 mph and seas at 1 foot (.2 or .3Continue reading “Sept. 21, 2021”

Sept. 20, 2021: Rain! Glorious, wet, puddle-making rain! Along with thunder. We also had three or four power outages here on Lucy Point, I’m guessing from lines that had accumulated salt finally getting wet. The thunder was pretty loud as well. You can see the lightening strikes in the radar loop, first at mid-island thenContinue reading “Sept. 20, 2021”

Sept. 19, 2021: The weather headline for this week will be fairly mild winds, which will make it a good week for boating, snorkeling and diving. Today we’ll have east/northeast winds 12-17 mph and seas at 2 feet (.6 meters).Tonight into tomorrow morning we will have a chance of a scattered shower. Monday and TuesdayContinue reading “Sept. 19, 2021”

Sept. 18, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! We awoke this morning with some clouds off to our east. It is possible that Guanaja picked up a shower. Those will be rare today. We will have mostly sunny skies and east winds 15-20 mph with 3-4 foot (1 to 1.3 meter) seas. Tomorrow should be slightly calmerContinue reading “Sept. 18, 2021”

Sept. 17, 2021: Good morning Roatan! I come to you this morning with some hope for wetter weather … in a week. A cold front is coming. No, it won’t make it all the way down here, but it will push enough unstable moisture this far south to give us good chances of rain nextContinue reading “Sept. 17, 2021”

Sept. 16, 2021: Yesterday was beautiful and fairly calm. This morning is starting out the same, but winds should start to pick up as we get into the evening. We start out the day with winds in the 10 mph range and seas at 1-2 feet (.3 to .6 meters), but this evening they willContinue reading “Sept. 16, 2021”

Over at the Facebook group Ask Anything Roatan, someone asked when the rainy season starts. Can you believe we can get an answer from 1722? Here is what Philip Ashton, stranded by pirates on an uninhabited Roatan said then: The rains begin about the middle of October, & continue for five months together, and thenContinue reading “Support our site, get a free book”

Sept. 15, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! We actually had a report of some rain last night. Larry Rapp in West Bay reported .15 of an inch around 9:30 p.m. I’m posting the satellite from around that time, and you can see the classic scenario for rain on the island just after nightfall. Storms tend toContinue reading “Sept. 15, 2021”

Sept. 14, 2021: Good morning, Roatan! Another day with hardly a cloud in the sky. As you can see from this morning’s satellite, it is unusually clear across the entire Central America region. Today we’ll have mostly clear skies and east-northeast winds at 7-12 mph and 1-2 foot (.3 to .6 meter) seas. There’s aContinue reading “Sept. 14, 2021”

Sept. 13, 2021: Good morning Roatan! Our skies have been clear with virtually not a cloud in the sky the last 24 hours. We’ll continue mostly sunny today with east winds 15-20 mph and seas at 3 feet (1 meter). Tomorrow winds will be a little calmer at 12-17 mph and seas at 2 feetContinue reading “Sept. 13, 2021”