Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Leo Weiss and shows resident pelicans near his Punta Blanca home. Remember the top five most-liked photos of May will compete for an excursion valued at $100 complete with lunch and drinks from Jolly Roger Roatan. Send your photo with name and location to bookmybio@gmail.com.
We’ve been hot-hot-hot, with highs right around 90 (32C). Hot conditions will continue, but potentially we will get some relief Sunday and Monday.

Our satellite shows some high, thin clouds with no rain. This week will be dry, but we are still expecting scattered showers Sunday (especially in the morning) and perhaps through the day Monday into Tuesday morning.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: This morning we wake up to east winds 20 mph and seas 3 feet. This week we will see midday winds 15-20 mph and 3 foot seas and evening and overnight seas 20-25 mph and 4-5 foot seas. This weekend things look a bit calmer, with daytime winds 7-12 mph and 2 foot seas.

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Low tides are 11:40 a.m. and midnight. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning Bay Islands! Our photo this morning is taken by Davinci McNab from Paya Bay Resort looking toward Barbareta with the hazy outline of Guanaja in the background.

We had hopes for some rains this week, but it is starting to look drier.

What clouds there are this morning are high, thin cirrus clouds without any rain in them. The clouds off to our east are not moving much. We look dry this week. We should have a few more clouds toward midweek and I wouldn’t completely rule out a morning shower, but we should be mostly dry.
The long-range forecasts are trying to give us some rain the in the middle of May.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to winds a little gustier than we’ve had, getting up to 20 mph from the east with 3 foot seas. We will calm a bit to 10-15 mph midday before getting back up to 20 mph this evening. Tomorrow will be much like today, but Sunday and Monday midday winds should be calmer at 7-12 mph and seas 2 feet.

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Lowest tide is 8 p.m. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Nancy Sikora and is a bird she is pretty sure is a vireo, but if you are an ornithologist (bird expert) you can let us know exactly what he is in comments.
Sandy Bay got a small shower this morning, and we will be having morning rain chances the next few days.

The whitest dots you see on the 7:20 a.m. satellite are potential showers that are moving to the west. We will keep a small chance of a shower through mid-morning. Midday and afternoon should be dry. We will keep this cycle of perhaps a few morning showers and dry, hot middays and afternoons through perhaps Wednesday. The end of the week looks drier, so probably the morning rain chances go away.

Here are this morning’s rain totals. The showers happened around 6 a.m. for Sandy Bay and the rest of us were dry.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 8 mph and seas around 1 foot. We should stay around there today and tomorrow. This evening and tomorrow evening winds will pick up to around 12 mph and seas to 2 feet. All in all, still good days on the sea. Tuesday winds start to creep up to 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet and Wednesday through the end of the week 15 mph and seas 3 feet.

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Lowest tide is 2:20 p.m. and tonight will be dark, with no moon.

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Juan Carlos Caceres and shows a hazy moon setting over Politilly. We had lots of hazy photos late April into May last year when fires on the coast covered our skies.

Our satellite this morning looks very blue, with only a few clouds around. We’re dry this morning, but starting tomorrow I wouldn’t be surprised to see a morning shower here or there. Any morning showers Sunday into next week won’t last long and middays and afternoons should be dry.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: The main story this weekend is milder winds, coming from the east 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. This will be a great weekend on the water. Starting Monday afternoon we’ll see the east winds get back to a more typical 15 mph and seas to 3 feet, where they’ll stay for much of next week.

Our satellite image shows red dots that indicate fires, where mainland farmers are clearing sugar cane fields, especially on the east coast of Mosquitia. Last year this map was bright red. Of course last year was a serious drought season. This year we’ve had more rain and perhaps some of the farmers are waiting to burn until their fields dry out more. Hopefully we can get some scattered showers in to keep the smoke and fire down this year. All in all I don’t expect it to be as bad as last year, but don’t be surprised if you get some hazy mornings in early May.

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The tide gets pretty low at 1:30 p.m. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dirk Yelinek and shows a fire red sunset at Las Rocas. As we’ve gotten drier, our temps have gotten hotter, with several of us getting close to 90 (32C). We may have some cooling morning rains this weekend.

There’s hardly a cloud to be seen on satellite this morning. Today and tomorrow will be dry, but this weekend there are chances of morning showers here or there. It seems that when the winds calm a bit the chances of showers go up.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds this morning are from the east at 15 mph and seas 3 feet, especially southside. Winds will stay around there today and tomorrow, but will calm to 10 mph and 2-3 feet Saturday and 5-10 mph and 1-2 feet Sunday and Monday.

In our extended forecast, we can see more moisture moving in around May 2 or 3, as illustrated in this Euro moisture forecast with yellows and reds. It looks like we might have a rare early May rain system brewing. It’s too early to be sure, but we’ll keep an eye on it.

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Lowest tide is at noon. Have a great Thursday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is probably recognizable to most of our readers as the view of West Bay Beach from the bar at Bananarama taken by Drew Schuller. Many of us have knocked down a couple of beers there. Seeing this clear blue reminded me that we are getting into the season that fires on the mainland often cause smoke. Last year the airport closed several times due to smoke, but this year I’m hopeful that our recent rains will keep the smoke a little less smoky. Usually it is at its worst early to mid May.

On satellite at 7:30 a.m. we see a popcorn cloud over Barbarat. Guanaja picked up .01 of an inch this morning, so it’s not impossible that some of those clouds to our east might bring a quick shower to someone, but most of us should stay dry. Today through Friday the forecast is dry. This weekend, especially Sunday, we may get a morning shower. Early next week also looks like morning showers will be possible.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 15 mph and seas 3 feet. We will stay around there through the week. This weekend winds should calm to 5-10 mph from the east northeast and seas 1-2 feet, so it will be a great weekend on the water.

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Low tides are 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 p.m. Have a great Wednesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day was taken by Rosemary Lucas and looks toward the sunrise over the hills that make up the spine of Roatan from Sandy Bay.
Winds are starting to die down a little. They will die down even more this weekend.

Our skies this morning are quite clear, with almost no clouds to be seen. We will continue dry through the week. This weekend there might be a very small chance of a morning shower somewhere, but most of us should be dry.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 15-20 mph and seas 4 feet. We should be 15 mph and 3 feet midday and we will stay right around there the rest of the week. This weekend it looks like it might be a bit calmer, with 10 mph east winds and seas at 2 feet.

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Low tides are 10:45 a.m. and 11 p.m. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Lisa Olsen submitted this photo that was taken off Lawson Dock.

Today is a day lots of folks will be at church and/or the beach. They will not have to deal with rain but it will be a bit windy.

At 6:30 a.m. our satellite is mostly clear, but there are a few clouds here and there. Guanaja actually got .01 of an inch, but there definitely isn’t much rain out there. The forecast is dry and there aren’t even many clouds in the forecast.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with 25 mph east winds and 4-5 foot seas southside. Winds will be around 20 mph midday, but increase toward 30 mph as we get to sunset and seas will increase to 5-6 feet.
Tomorrow winds will be 20-25 mph and seas 5 feet.
Tuesday we are back to 15-20 mph east winds and seas 3-4 feet, where they will stay for the rest of the week.

Don’t forget this week’s special menu to pick up some quick treats on the way to the beach from Ikigai in French Harbour!

Lowest tide is 9:30 p.m. Have a safe Sunday!