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November 3, 2023
Good morning Bay Islands. Here are our rainfall totals overnight. Very consistent numbers across the big island. We’ve been a bit fortunate in this storm. Puerto Cortes has picked up over 16 inches yesterday and this morning. A bit more for Utila. On our satellite we can see that we are in the middle ofContinue reading “November 3, 2023”
November 2, 2023
Good morning. Here is the rainfall from midnight to 7 a.m. And here is the rainfall since Wednesday. We have quite a bit of rain to our north. And also scattered showers to our east. This rain is moving quite slowly to the southwest. We’re still looking for periods of heavy rain today, tonight, tomorrowContinue reading “November 2, 2023”
November 1, 2023 evening update
The 6 p.m. update lowers the likelihood of a tropical storm to 30 percent and moves the box south to Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Panama (!). No tropical storm for us this weekend. We are still looking for heavy rains and seas from our norther tomorrow and Friday. On our satellite we can see that we areContinue reading “November 1, 2023 evening update”
Rainfall for October 2023
Rain total for October 2023: We are officially entering 28.54 inches in the record books for the month and that was about average across the island. From January to September we got exactly 26 inches. In October we got more than that. Our rainfall went from 30 percent of the year’s average to 63 percent.Continue reading “Rainfall for October 2023”
November 1, 2023
These totals are since midnight. Yesterday the west side got an additional 3 inches and the east side most of us got 2 inches. You can see a storm just to our northeast that brought all the rain.Rain today.More rain tomorrow.The most rain tomorrow night into Friday.Seas will be 2-3 feet today with west winds.WindsContinue reading “November 1, 2023”
October 31, 2023
Good morning Bay Islands. We’ve had some heavy rain islandwide already, especially on the west side, with West End and West Bay already picking up 3 inches between 6 and 9:40 a.m. Today we will have some rain.Tomorrow we will have more rain.Thursday and Friday we will have the most rain.Most models say between 4 to 8 inches, andContinue reading “October 31, 2023”
October 30, 2023 evening update
I did a video update that focuses on wind. Friday looks to be an especially bad wind day with seas on the north side around 6 feet.
October 30, 2023
Good morning Bay Islands. I did a Facebook Live for the forecast today. I apologize for the poor graphics. We’re having a power outage on Jonesville Point and I had to use a backup computer. This is the GFS computer prediction from now until Tuesday. You will notice it shows the storm becoming a categoryContinue reading “October 30, 2023”
Oct. 29, evening edition
Here is the latest map on Pilar, which is expected to take a U-turn when our norther arrives Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Our chances of a tropical system in the next seven days are up to 30 percent. The GFS is showing a hurricane for the weekend. Of course that is just one prediction andContinue reading “Oct. 29, evening edition”