Good morning Bay Islands. This lavender beauty comes from Brenda LaTarte in front of Underwater Vision in Utila.
We will have another beautiful day today.

We are mostly clear this morning with maybe a few more clouds toward Utila at 8 a.m., but no one has recorded any rain. We should mostly stay dry through Tuesday. Yesterday I said that there was a chance of a norther Wednesday, but that is looking unlikely now. Rain chances still may go up a little on Wednesday and Thursday, but the week ahead looks mostly dry.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Winds are light and variable with 2 foot seas this morning. They should stay around there today and even calmer tomorrow at 1 foot. Tomorrow night and Monday night easterly winds will gust up to 20 mph, but other than that the week ahead looks pretty calm.

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Lowest tide is just before 2 a.m. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. I don’t usually do photo of the day combos, but I like to call this one Fire and Ice from Phil Sikora in Carib Bight.
We aren’t dealing with real fire like they are in Los Angeles or real ice like they are across the Southern US. Instead we have beautiful weather.

Here’s our 8:45 a.m. satellite. We have a few clouds to our north, but those are moving northwest. We should be mostly sunny through the weekend with only a slight chance of a morning shower each day.
Next good chance of significant rain comes midweek next week.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: we start the day with 10 mph east winds and seas around 3 feet. We may get some winds up to 20 mph overnight, but for the weekend winds will be light and variable, with some westerly winds west side and Utila. Seas this weekend will be 1-2 feet.
In the extended forecast there are some models predicting higher winds and seas midweek with a norther, so we’ll keep an eye on it.

This weekend will be great time to catch a ferry to Guanaja or the mainland with great weather and calm seas.

Tides will be quite low at 1 a.m. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Erin Santoro calls this photo “Breakfast” as a young heron gets a crab in front of Ibigari between West Bay and West End. The winner of photo of the month for January gets breakfast as well as a free night for two at Paya Bay Resort.
Overnight and this morning most of us have gotten between half an inch and an inch of rain.

On satellite at 7:30 a.m. we see quite a bit of clouds and showers, especially west side and Utila. Looks like the east side is getting some sun. We will have scattered showers throughout the day, but the good news is today is the last day for widespread rain. Starting tomorrow and into the weekend we will be mostly dry. We can’t rule out a small shower here or there, but most of us should stay dry Thursday through Sunday.

We start the day with northeast winds at 15 mph and seas 3 feet. Those should increase during the day to 20-25 mph and seas 5 feet. Tomorrow winds will be from the northeast 10-15 mph and seas 4-5 feet. Friday winds turn east/southeast at 10-15 mph and seas 3 feet. This weekend winds turn to the west 5-10 mph and seas around 2 feet.

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Lowest tide is before midnight. Have a great Wednesday!

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.

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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.