Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Keri Weitz Meyer of a beautiful sunset over Calabash Bight. Remember on New Year’s Day we will be voting for the photo of the month and the winner of a $50 gift certificate to Roatan Oasis restaurant.
Most of us have gotten between half an inch to an inch of steady rain as of 9 a.m. Rain should continue today but we are still looking forward to a drier week ahead.

We still have quite a bit of cloudiness overhead. Rain isn’t terribly heavy, but where it falls, it is steady. We will continue to see off-and-on rain throughout today and perhaps into tomorrow morning. We should start clearing out midday tomorrow. Over the next week we will still have a chance of an occasional shower, but the rain should be much less than we have experienced past weeks.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with north winds at 15 mph and seas around 4 feet. We will begin to calm today, down to 3 feet by evening. Tomorrow north winds will be 10 mph and seas 2-3 feet. Starting Tuesday, things get quite calm with light north winds and seas 1-2 feet. It truly will be a nice weather week.

Continued thanks for all of your concern. Mrs. Roatan Weather got out of Centro Médico Ramos yesterday and is resting comfortably. We will resume our trip to the States tomorrow.

I don’t know about you, but that pork leg roasted with pineapple looks too good for words. Get your pork cut to your preference at Carniceria Rosita.

Lowest tide is 10 p.m. Have a great Sunday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Pamela Darby who brings us this lovely cloud formation against blue sky yesterday on the east end.

Sorry for the late update but today is the day Mrs. Roatan Weather gets her ankle surgery. We’ve had a rainy morning, especially mid island west. The west end also seems to be dealing with a power outage until 1 pm.

Our 10 am satellite shows that the worst of the rain has moved to our north. The west end got a bit more than an inch, while the east end has only gotten a few hundredths of an inch.

We will have scattered showers today and tomorrow with perhaps a few peaks of sun midday and afternoons. Friday into Saturday we should have some stronger, steadier rains with a fairly weak norther coming in.

Wind and Galaxy wave forecast: quite calm today and tomorrow with northwest winds 3-8 mph and seas 1-2 mph. Friday night through Monday morning we will have northerly winds 10-15 mph and seas 3-4 feet. After that winds and seas get quite calm. It should be a fairly nice holiday week. We will even get trade winds back for New Years for the first time in awhile.

If you need holiday meats, you need Carniceria Rosita. Keep in mind they will close at 5 pm today for their company holiday dinner.

Low tides are 7 pm and 6:30 am. Have a great Thursday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Alex Fleig, who says moonshine is as good as sunshine and that dot under the moon is actually Jupiter.
Things seem calm on the islands at 6 a.m., but the computers give us a good chance at catching a shower today.

The satellite at 6 a.m. looks pretty good, but there are clouds to our northeast that are moving our way. The computers say there’s a good chance of rain midday into the evening.
Tomorrow looks pretty good after a possible morning shower.
Early next week we will have scattered showers, but also plenty of sun. Rain should increase Thursday evening into Friday with a weak norther.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with northeast winds 10 mph and seas 4-5 feet, especially north side. The rest of today and tomorrow we will have east/northeast winds 10-15 mph and seas around 4 feet.
Monday through Wednesday we will get a westerly breeze and seas will calm a bit to 2-3 feet.

Lowest tide is 2:30 a.m. as we move into the full moon. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Claudia Quiroz in West Bay. Remember the top photo of the month gets a $50 gift certificate to Roatan Oasis. Send it to bookmybio@gmail.com with name and location.

As of 7:45 a.m. we’ve mostly missed the rain so far this morning.

On satellite we can see the most intense rain and thundershowers are to our west. Puerto Cortes picked up 3.5 inches overnight. I expect some rain showers today, but the most intense rain and maybe some thunder should come overnight tonight. We will have a few showers tomorrow, mostly in the morning. Scattered showers continue through the weekend.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: This morning we have northeast winds 10-15 mph and seas around 3 feet. We will stay right around there today, but the wind really picks up tonight and tomorrow morning from the northeast 17-22 mph and seas up to 6 feet. By tomorrow evening winds should calm to 10-15 mph and seas to 4-5 feet, where they will stay through Saturday.
Next week we will see winds turn to the west/northwest but seas should be calmer, starting the week at 3 feet and ending the week at 1 foot.
In the longrange forecast, it looks like a stronger norther will come a week from Saturday.

If you are a cruiser planning your excursion next week, conditions won’t be too bad, even if you have to sit out a rain shower or two. We just call those beverage breaks on the island. Take your beverage break on the Jolly Roger Roatan catamaran and they promise to maximize your island fun.

Lowest tide is 1 a.m. Have a great Thursday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from our good friend Glory Cone who runs the coffee shop in Oakridge. We’ve seen a few pictures of the ghost ship in Mahogany Bay, but this is the first time I’ve seen a face in it.

This is one of the better 9 a.m. satellites I’ve seen in awhile. Mostly blue skies with a few clouds, meaning only a small chance of a shower through early afternoon, but ….

We can see a cold front (norther) coming down from the States. This will mean increasing clouds in the evening and probably rain overnight, through tomorrow, a little less on Saturday, and maybe drier for Sunday. Rain totals shouldn’t be too bad, about 2 inches for Roatan and Guanaja and maybe 3 for Utila.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to some of the best winds and seas we’ve had in awhile, with southerly winds 5 mph and seas about 2 feet. Winds will turn to the northeast at 10-15 and seas to 3 feet as we get into the late evening. Those conditions will last through the day tomorrow.
Friday is our windy day, with northeast winds 12-17 mph and seas 5-6 feet.
Saturday winds get calmer,from the east at 5 mph and seas 3-4 feet.

We’ve been off island for awhile and I can tell you, my wife Susan can’t wait to attack some Street Corn at Ikigai by Robby Molina in French Harbour.

Lowest tide is 11 p.m. Have a great Wednesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. This morning’s photo comes from Mary Beth Adams in West Bay this morning. As you can tell from the rainbow they got a shower good for a quarter of an inch this morning.

We have some stormy weather to our southeast. It is moving very slowly and should weaken as it moves west but I can’t rule out some of it getting here. We will keep a chance of rain through today

Tomorrow we have a good shot at mostly staying dry. Wednesday night through Friday morning is our next norther with off and on rain throughout the period. Rain should lessen for the weekend and Monday before another weak norther on Tuesday.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast
Winds will be from the east 5-10 mph today and 5 mph tomorrow with seas 3-4 feet today and 2-3 feet tomorrow. Friday isn’t looking as bad as we thought with northeast winds around 15 mph and seas 5 feet in the morning. Have a great Tuesday!