June 6, 2022: Good morning Roatan! It’s been hot! The temperature is in the low 90s, the sun is shining and there is little wind. That is the formula for a hot Roatan day. Coral View got cooled off yesterday with a quarter of an inch of rain midday, but most of the rest of us stayed dry.

Today will stay mostly sunny, calm and hot with about a 10 percent chance of a shower. Seas will be around 1 foot (.3 meters).

Tomorrow will be slightly windier with southeast winds around 10 mph during the day and seas at 2 feet (.6 meters). Tomorrow night the trade winds return with 20 mph winds and more chop in the sea. Rain chances tomorrow are around 20 percent.

Wednesday will be windy with daytime winds 20 mph and nighttime winds from the east at 25 mph. Seas will be 3-5 feet (.6 to 1.3 meters). Rain chances most of the rest of the week will be 20-30 percent, but over the weekend they rise to perhaps 50-50. Have a great week!

June 5, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Yesterday morning, the folks around Sandy Bay got three quarters of an inch, while much of the rest of the island stayed dry.

The main weather story through Tuesday will be the fairly calm winds and seas. There is a very small chance of a scattered shower during the period, but we will stay partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Tuesday night into Wednesday the easterly winds return. Rain chances increase this coming weekend. Have a great Sunday!

June 3, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! On the satellite image, we can see pretty clearly the structure of what will soon be Tropical Storm Alex. The rain we received in the middle of the night was from an outer wave of moisture coming off the system. (I can’t say an outer band, because the storm hasn’t gotten closed off circulation yet.) Most of us received between three quarters and an inch of much needed rain.

Today we should see decreasing clouds, especially in the afternoon and evening. The models pretty strongly agree we should get some rain tomorrow morning. Larry Rapp near West End tells me he’s seeing 2-3 foot waves at the reef and that is no doubt being churned up by the storm. Our winds will continue from the west today and tomorrow, but only around 10-15 mph. After tomorrow morning our rain chances go down for Sunday and Monday. Winds should remain fairly calm so those will be great days for outdoor activities. Stronger easterly winds return Wednesday. We are entering a period where most days will have around a 30 percent chance of showers, especially in the evenings and overnights. Have a great Friday!

June 2, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! This morning we awoke to clouds and light rain. This is thanks to moisture coming south from Invest 91L, a storm just east of Yucatan that could become Tropical Storm Alex. The storm itself will move north toward Cuba and Florida, but its circulation should drag waves of clouds and rain over us. It won’t be a constant rain, since we will also see periods of sun over the next few days.

For today we will have periods of clouds and sun with a chance of rain throughout the day and night. Winds should top out around 10 mph and seas will be 1-2 feet (.3 to .6 meters).

Tomorrow will be similar, though perhaps a bit windier, with winds 15-20 mph and seas 2-3 feet (.6 to 1 meter).

Rain chances continue into Saturday, but Sunday looks drier and quite calm, a picture perfect boating day. Monday and Tuesday look nice as well, with lower rain chances. Have a great Thursday!

May brought us our lowest monthly rainfall total since last June. We recorded just .47 of an inch of rain, well below our May average of 2.63 inches of rain. June is typically a fairly dry month as well, with 3.06 inches of rain on average, though last year we only recorded .17 of an inch in June. Let’s hope we get more than that this year!

June 1, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Most of us got between a tenth and a quarter of an inch of rain yesterday morning. Overnight last night we just barely missed out on a pretty good downpour. On the satellite from 8 p.m. last night to 8 a.m. this morning you can see the storm with a great deal of lightening at its core moving off the coast of Belize and moving just to our north and finally to our east.

We will have a good chance of seeing a shower today at some point under partly to mostly cloudy skies. Winds will be mostly from the west at 10-15 mph and seas at 2 feet (.6 meters).

Rain chances continue through Saturday morning. Winds will be fairly mild through this period. Starting Sunday, things look drier and windier. Have a great Wednesday!

May 30, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Still a lot of clouds around this morning and still no rain. The next two days we have only very low rain chances, so watch us catch a shower 😅. Last night I got up to 34 mph winds on Jonesville Point. The next two days will also continue windy.

Today and tomorrow we have partly cloudy skies and daytime winds 10-15 mph and seas at 3 feet (1 meter) and nighttime winds 22-27 mph and seas at 5 feet (1.6 meters). We’ll say a 20 percent chance of rain today and 30 percent tomorrow.

Wednesday the winds calm down considerably and the rain chances increase. Over this time period Hurricane Agatha is expected to reform over the Bay of Campeche. While this won’t directly impact our weather, this time period will have lots of moisture and agitation in the Caribbean atmosphere, so we will have a good chance of catching some rain between Wednesday and the end of the week. Have a great week!

May 29, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! There are plenty of clouds around, but somehow we have managed to avoid the rain. On radar, most of the scattered showers are to our west.

We will keep a 50 percent chance of rain today and partly to mostly cloudy skies. Winds during the day will be 10-15 mph with 3 foot (1 meter) seas, but should pick up tonight to 20-25 mph and 4 foot (1.3 meter) seas.

Tomorrow and Tuesday we have a bit lower chance of rain, perhaps 30 percent. Daytime winds will be 15-20 mph and nighttime winds 20-25 mph both days.

Wednesday our winds calm down and our rain chances increase to around 50 percent each day into the weekend. We are entering an active pattern and most of us should see some rain this week. Have a great Sunday!

May 28, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! We wake up to a lot of clouds but, at least as of 8 a.m., no rain on the island. At least there hasn’t been any recorded. The radar shows rain northwest of the islands off the coast of Belize.

Today there will be about a 40 percent chance of rain, especially toward evening. Winds will be from the east 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet (.6-1 meter). Tonight winds will get up to 15-20 mph and seas 3-4 feet.

Tomorrow should be a bit of a calmer day, with a 50-50 rain chance and seas at 2 feet.

Monday and Tuesday rain chances will be lower, around 20 percent each day. Starting Wednesday and into the weekend winds will get quite a bit calmer, to around 5-10 mph, and rain chances go back up to the 50-50 range each day. Have a great weekend!

May 26, 2022: Good morning, Roatan! Last night was windy but not quite as windy as it has been. We got up to 31 mph on Jonesville Point when a few nights ago it was 39 mph. This morning we have partly cloudy skies with hazy sunshine due to Saharan dust, but those clouds do not seem to be producing rain.

Winds will continue around 20 mph with 3 foot (1 meter) seas during the day and 25 mph with 4 foot (1.3 meter) seas overnight. There will be a small chance of an isolated shower, especially this evening.

Rain chances are a little better tomorrow with winds continuing around 20 mph and seas around 3 feet.

It looks like we have a good chance of seeing some rain this weekend and next week looks to be one of the wettest we’ve had since mid-April. Good news for dusty roads. Have a great Thursday!