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!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Trish Johnson and shows two primary types of clouds. The cirrus clouds in the foreground have a beautiful pattern and the cumulus clouds in the background frame the photo in Calabash Bight. Send your photos with name and location for one of the last chances at a $50 gift certificate to Roatan Oasis.

Our beautiful weather continues.

On satellite at 8:30 a.m. we see storms well to our north. They aren’t moving anywhere fast, so we should continue to be partly cloudy with a very low chance of a stray shower. Our next best chance of rain comes Sunday into Monday morning.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to very light winds and seas 1-2 feet. Starting this weekend we will see our winds turn to the east, the dominant direction for winds on the Bay Islands, but we haven’t had trade winds in a long time during this rainy season. When they turn to the east, especially for New Year’s Day and the second, they will be around 15 mph.

With all these calm seas, it is time to do some after-holiday sale shopping and take advantage of Roatan Ferry Galaxy Wave’s schedule that covers all our Bay Islands.

Lowest tide is just after midnight. Have a great Thursday!

Good morning Bay Islands. In our photo of the day, Els Mattyson expresses his wishes for today in French.
We got plenty rain last night with Punta Blanca picking up nearly 2.5 inches. and many locations with over an inch overnight.

On satellite at 9 a.m. we see lots of clouds, but the heaviest rain seems to be to the northwest of Roatan moving to the southwest very slowly. We’ll keep scattered showers around especially through the morning, but rain should decrease as the day goes on. Today was the best chance of rain for the week, so the rest of the week there will be a shower here or there, but otherwise partly cloudy skies. Next best chance of rain comes Sunday morning into Monday morning.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds this morning are light and variable and seas are still 2 feet. Tomorrow into Friday seas should be closer to 1 foot.

Lowest tide is close to midnight. Have a great Wednesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Sharie Fox and features fireworks from Saturday night’s boat parade in Oakridge.
Our wonderful week of weather continues.

This morning we have quite a bit of cloudiness, but these are thin, cirrus clouds that aren’t rain clouds. I guess it is possible someone gets a stray shower today, but most of us should be dry. Best chance of rain this week is tonight into tomorrow morning, but the rest of the week should be mostly dry.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to west/northwest winds 5-10 mph and seas at 2 feet. Winds will be very light all week and seas will remain 1-2 feet.

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Lowest tide is 11:15 p.m. Have a great Tuesday!