Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Theresa Nelson and shows a rainbow from this morning in Johnson Bight just before the downpour came, and boy did it come. We will have a couple of days of scattered showers before drier weather Thursday.Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Theresa Nelson and shows a rainbow from this morning in Johnson Bight just before the downpour came, and boy did it come. We will have a couple of days of scattered showers before drier weather Thursday.

Our 9:50 a.m. satellite shows the biggest cloud in our part of the Caribbean right over us. The rain has moved from east to west and seems to be finishing up in West Bay. We will keep a chance of a shower today, but there should be less rain and more sun this afternoon. Rain returns overnight and there will be a chance of showers throughout the day tomorrow. Rain chances will be quite low Thursday into the weekend with mostly sunny skies.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with calm winds and seas 1-2 feet. Those conditions will continue today. Tomorrow things change. We will start the day with east/northeast winds 10-15 mph and seas 3 feet and end the day with northeast winds 17-22 mph and seas around 5 feet.
Thursday winds calm to 10-15 mph and seas to 4 feet.
Winds turn to the east Friday at 10-15 mph and seas 3 feet.
The weekend looks much calmer with seas 1-2 feet.

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Lowest tide is 10:15 a.m. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Chad Kemper, showing the sun setting on an outgoing cruise ship near Sandy Bay.
Many of us got a very small shower around 5 a.m. but only picked up .01 to .05 of an inch. We will have a great weather day today.

On satellite at 8 a.m. we see mostly sunny skies with only a few clouds around. It is not impossible that someone sees a morning shower, especially toward Utila, but it won’t amount to much. We should be mostly sunny today. Tomorrow we have a chance of morning showers and Wednesday we have scattered showers through the day, especially in the morning and late evening. Thursday into the weekend looks quite nice, with only a small chance of a morning shower.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds are quite calm this morning but seas beyond the reef are still around 3 feet. Those winds and seas will last through today, but tomorrow winds will continue light and variable, but seas will calm to 2 feet.
Wednesday winds will increase through the day, from the northeast at 10 mph and seas 2-3 feet in the morning to 20 mph and seas 4-5 feet in the evening. Thursday winds will start to turn to the east 10-20 mph and seas 3-4 feet.

I don’t mention temperatures much in my forecasts because they don’t change much, but we have had some quite cool mornings around 73 degrees (22.8C), but sea temperatures are still around 80 degrees (26.7), so perfect conditions for a dip in the sea from the Jolly Roger Roatan catamaran.

Lowest tide is 9 p.m. Have a great week!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Marcy Schwartz in Calabash Bight.
Many of us got a heavy shower last night around 5 p.m. good for between half an inch to a little over an inch of rain. We are dealing with some scattered showers this morning, but in the long-range forecast things are starting to look drier, especially for the week after next.

This morning’s 8 a.m. satellite shows quite a bit of cloud cover and a few showers here or there. Clouds and rain should decrease as the day goes along and this evening, tonight and tomorrow look quite dry. Tuesday morning there is a chance of showers and Wednesday there will be a chance of rain throughout the day with another weak norther blowing in.
Thursday into the weekend look dry and mostly sunny.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east/northeast winds around 10 mph and seas 4 feet. Winds today will be 10-15 mph from the east and seas 3-4 feet. Tomorrow winds will be from the northeast at 5 mph and seas 2-3 feet.
Tuesday start out very calm but get a little windier, to around 10 mph from the north by evening and seas 2 feet.
Wednesday winds pick up, especially in the evening, from the north 10-20 mph and seas up to 4-5 feet. Thursday winds and seas calm to around 10 mph and 3 feet and the weekend looks quite calm.

This is the GFS forecast for water vapor in the atmosphere over the next two weeks. We are seeing much less red, especially after our next norther passes on Wednesday. That means that Thursday into next week should be much drier than we’ve been experiencing. At the very end of the loop you see a strong norther forecast for around Jan. 20 that would bring us even cooler temperatures than we’ve been experiencing, but that is quite uncertain as it is a long way off.

Low tides are 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. Have a great Sunday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Mary Beth Adams and shows some cumulus clouds behind the windmills near Dixon Cove.
We wake up to partly cloudy skies after a few overnight showers brought most of us a quarter to half an inch of rain. Yesterday Utila got quite a bit of rain at over 2 inches. We will keep scattered showers in the forecast today.

Our satellite at 7:30 a.m. shows a few clouds, especially over the west side and Utila, moving to the southwest. We will keep scattered showers around today, tonight and into early tomorrow, but midday tomorrow into early next week things look pretty nice, with only a small chance of a shower. Better rain chances come Tuesday into Wednesday as another norther much like this one comes through. Thursday into the weekend looks quite nice as well.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to northeast winds 15-20 mph and seas around 4 feet. Winds should remain 15-20 mph today with seas building to 5 feet by evening.
Tomorrow winds will be from the east at 10-15 mph and seas around 4 feet.
Monday winds will be from the east 5-10 mph and seas 3 feet.
Tuesday winds will be from the northeast 5-10 mph and seas 2 feet.
Wednesday with the norther winds will be from the northeast around 15 mph and seas around 5 feet.

Monday and Tuesday will be great days for a ferry ride on Roatan Ferry Galaxy Wave to the mainland and seas should be nice again for the weekend trips to Guanaja next weekend. Temperatures will continue quite cool. We got down to 71 (21.6C) at the airport overnight.

Low tides are 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Mara Owens in Sandy Bay. We both agreed we are suckers for hummingbirds.

Apologies to Elaine Darling in Utila. I forgot to give her credit for her beautiful photo yesterday.

The west side and Utila has gotten rains between a quarter of an inch to over an inch overnight, while the east side has been pretty dry this morning, but got a heavy rain about 4 p.m. yesterday. Guanaja got off-and-on rain throughout yesterday good for .76 of an inch.

We have lots of clouds on satellite this morning, but not all of those clouds have rain. We will have a chance of rain throughout the day but a chance for heavy rain tonight and tomorrow morning as a norther moves in. Saturday into Sunday morning has good rain chances. Sunday afternoon and Monday look drier and we have another small norther moving in Wednesday bringing more rain.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds are light this morning, but seas are 3-4 feet in advance of our norther. Seas will build to 4 feet this afternoon and around 5 feet for Saturday with northeast winds 15-20 mph. Things calm to 7-12 mph east winds Sunday with seas around 3-4 feet and 3 feet for Monday. Wednesday night into Thursday morning we get north winds 17-22 mph and seas 5 feet with our next norther.

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Low tides are 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. We all got a good downpour of rain, mostly 11 p.m. to midnight last night. Rain totals were between .5 and 1.5 inches last night. Things should be drier during the day today, but we have rain in the forecast through Saturday.

We wake up to mostly cloudy skies. We will have few peaks of sunshine through the day and only a small chance of a shower here or there midday and afternoon. We have a good chance of getting a shower overnight into tomorrow morning. Friday night into Saturday morning we have the best chance of seeing some downpours from the next norther, while the windiest conditions should be Saturday evening into Sunday morning. Next week still looks nice with small daily rain chances.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 5-10 mph and seas 2-3 feet. Winds should remain from the east 7-12 mph today and tomorrow, with seas 2-3 feet today and 3-4 feet tomorrow. Saturday winds increase to 15-20 mph from the northeast and seas to 4-5 feet. Sunday calms back down to 3-4 feet and the first of next week looks calmer still, with 2-3 foot seas and the possibility of a small norther Wednesday into Thursday.

If all the holiday hubbub has been ruff on your pooch, give him or her a special treat of Roatan Pets food, specially designed by Mitch Cummins for your canine’s dietary needs.

Congratulations to Claudia Quiroz, winner of the December Photo of the Month and a $50 gift certificate to Roatan Oasis (roatanoasis.com).

Low tides are 5 p.m. and 5 a.m. Have a great Thursday! And Go Dawgs!

Rainfall for December 2024: We put in 20.14 inches from Sandy Bay for our island rainfall for December, 8 inches above average. It means that after a record dry season and a similarly record wet season, we end up close to normal for the year. Go figure.

Typically January starts our march toward dry season with an average of 10-11 inches. That looks right given our forecast for scattered showers in the first few days of January.

Good morning Bay Islands. Our first photo of a new month and a new year comes from Melissa Ricard. She is the first contestant competing for one night of bed and breakfast for two at Paya Bay Resort. A little later this morning I will post the contest for December.

We’ve been mostly dry this morning with only .05 falling in Guanaja.

The satellite at 8:30 a.m. shows quite a bit of rain to our north. We will have scattered showers around over the next three days with 2-3 inches forecast to fall in the period between today and Friday. There will be some rain with our norther on Saturday, but it doesn’t look especially heavy. In the extended forecast next week is looking nice, with only small rain chances each day.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east/northeast winds around 10 mph and seas around 2 feet. Winds will be from the east today 10-15 mph, around 10 mph tomorrow and only around 5 mph Friday, but because of the approaching cold front, seas will be 3 feet on Friday. Saturday is the windy day, with north winds around 20 mph and seas of 5 feet. Those will calm a bit into Sunday and a bit more into next Monday.

If you are a cruiser about to visit our island, you have picked a great time. We are coming out of rainy season, but we still have mild temperatures, many days not even hitting 80 degrees (24C). To maximize your fun with no worries about making the boat on time, check out Jolly Roger Roatan.

Here’s the link for the December photo contest: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15f5xjiPh8/

Low tides are 4 p.m. and 4 a.m. Have a great year!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Ruben Nava in Calabash Bight. On Wednesday the five most-liked photos will compete for a $50 gift certificate to RoatanOasis.com restaurant.
We are still looking for a sponsor for our January contest. If your business is interested, send me a message.
We had a wave a showers pass over our islands around 2 a.m. The big winner was Guanaja with an inch and a quarter.

The satellite from 9 p.m. last night to 9 a.m. today shows the rain that passed our islands just after midnight. At 9 a.m., most of the rain is well to our west. We will keep a chance of a shower, especially through the morning, but things will get drier as the day goes on.
Tomorrow looks like a picture perfect day, with mostly sunny skies and only a small chance of a scattered shower.
Wednesday through Friday we will have a 50/50 chance of rain each day, especially in the morning hours.
Saturday into Sunday we are still looking at the possibility of a norther, though the GFS is forecasting it stronger and the Euro is forecasting it weaker.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to west winds 5-10 mph and seas around 2 feet.
Tomorrow winds will be quite light and seas around 1 foot. Again, tomorrow is going to be a gorgeous day.
Wednesday through Friday our winds turn to the east 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet.
Saturday into Sunday we are looking at north/northeast winds from the norther, 12-17 mph and seas getting up to 4-5 feet, especially on Sunday morning.

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Lowest tide is 2:30 a.m. Have a great week!

ood morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Michelle Ebert who is a first-time visitor to the island and who sent us this photo from dusk at Turtle Beach Resort.

Nice weather continues.

We continue to have gorgeous blue skies. Those will last through today. There should be more clouds tomorrow, but rain chances for tomorrow will be low. A better rain chance comes for Monday morning. The first part of next week looks nice, but rain chances will go up toward the end of the week as a norther approaches.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds this morning are out of the east around 10 mph and seas 2 feet. We should stay right around there today. There is a disagreement in the forecast for tomorrow, with the GFS giving us very light winds and the Euro saying we will have west winds around 10 mph. The first part of next week has very light winds and seas 1-2 feet. Wednesday we get some trade winds from the east 10-15 mph and 3 foot seas. Sometime next weekend we may get strong north winds and seas around 6 feet, but the exact timing of those winds is still uncertain.

Lowest tide is 1:30 a.m. Have a great weekend!