Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is a cumulus cloud taken from the Iron Shore of West Bay by Michele Skeel. We may see a few rain-producing cumulus clouds this weekend, but it shouldn’t be a washout.

At 6:30 a.m. we have mostly clear skies, but there are some popcorn clouds to our east that could bring a quick shower to some locations this morning. Any showers should be brief and we should be mostly dry today. The rain chances go up Saturday and especially Sunday. This isn’t a norther, just some moisture from the east, so rain totals shouldn’t be too high, but I think most of us will get a shower sometime this weekend.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to 10 mph east winds and seas 2 feet. Tomorrow looks a little windier, with east winds 10-15 mph and seas 3 feet. Sunday and Monday look quite calm.

For most Americans, next week means Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving means turkey with all the trimmings. Paya Bay Resort will have a traditional Thanksgiving feast next Thursday. Remember, Diamond Rock road is now paved all the way to Paya.

Lowest tide is 3 a.m. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is a rainbow over Plan Grande from Guido Ernesto Bertea. We could see some rainbows here or there with some light showers around this morning, but we should be mostly dry.

Several locations across the Bay Islands have picked up around a tenth of an inch from morning showers, though Guanaja has picked up a third of an inch. There will be a chance of a passing shower through midmorning, but any rain will be brief. Rain chances will be small again tomorrow, but rain chances increase Saturday and scattered showers will be around Sunday throughout the day.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 10 mph and seas 2 feet. We should calm a bit this afternoon to 5 mph winds and seas 1-2 feet. Tomorrow looks much like today. Saturday may be a little windier with east winds 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet. Sunday and Monday look quite calm.

Thursday is a great time to plan your grilling needs for the weekend and head over to the best butcher on Roatan, Carniceria Rosita in Coxen Hole and French Harbour.

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

Good morning Bay Islands. We continue to dry out from that last norther and things are looking great in the forecast. Just as good as this photo of Oak Ridge taken by Duane McNab.

For once, almost no one got rain the last 24 hours. The same should be true for the next 24 hours.

The 8 a.m. satellite shows mostly clear skies overhead. We should continue mostly sunny today and tomorrow. An overnight or early morning shower isn’t impossible, but is unlikely through Saturday. Chances go up a bit Sunday.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 10-15 mph and seas 2 feet. This evening may be our windiest period of the week, with east winds 20 mph and seas 3 feet. Tomorrow we will be back to 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet and things will tend to get calmer from there into the weekend.

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Lowest tide will be 1:30 a.m. as we move toward new moon. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is a rainbow over Pristine Bay and the golf course from Tom Maxfield. Things continue to improve, with the surf starting to ease up on West Bay Beach, though midisland had up to 3 inches of rain in early morning showers.

Here is the satellite from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. The heavy clouds still seem to be over the east side of Roatan and not moving much, but as we go through the morning these storms will weaken. There will still be a chance of a scattered shower midday or afternoon, but most of us should be dry. There will again be a rain chance overnight, but tomorrow looks a bit drier than today and Monday and Tuesday should be mostly sunny.

Here are this morning’s rainfall totals, with over three inches falling in Oak Ridge and Punta Gorda.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with very light winds around 5 mph out of the west, but still seas 2-3 feet. We should see those seas calm as we go through the day to 2 feet. Tomorrow afternoon our slight breeze shifts to the east and seas will be 1-2 feet. Monday morning looks fairly calm as well, though Monday evening into the rest of the week we will see the return of easterly trade winds and seas 3-4 feet, especially southside.

Saturday is a great day to stock up on meats at Carniceria Rosita in Coxen Hole and French Harbour.

Lowest tide is at midnight. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Sue Fall in West Bay. We will definitely see some sunsets like this as winds calm and we see more sun. This weekend will be fairly calm and next week we will see the return of east winds, meaning calm waters for West Bay.

Last night most of us got between half an inch and and inch and a half of rain, especially before midnight. Today we should have less rain, but we will still have scattered showers, but also some sun. Winds are from the west 15 mph and seas are 4 feet. Those should calm a bit to 3 feet this afternoon. Tomorrow winds will be 10 mph from the west and seas 2 feet and Sunday winds will be 5 mph and shift from west to north to east with seas 1-2 feet. This weekend should be mostly dry with some chances of morning showers. Next week, especially early in the week, should be mostly dry.

Low tide is right around midnight. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dirk Yelinek at Las Sirenas in Camp Bay before our rains came. This morning we still have gusty winds 20-25 mph and seas 6 feet, but we will start seeing those numbers go down today and tomorrow and the weekend looks calmer and drier.

On radar we can see most of the rain is north of us and we haven’t gotten a lot of rain this morning. That’s a good thing, because most of us got 8-10 inches from this norther and La Ceiba picked up 14 inches. We will still be dealing with a few scattered showers today and tomorrow, but we will also have more dry periods and begin to see some sun. West winds today will calm to 17-22 mph and seas 5 feet and tomorrow 12-20 mph and seas 4 feet. By weekend we’re looking at northwest winds 5 mph and seas 2 feet. Next week winds turn to the east and rain chances are low through the week, mostly overnights and mornings. Have a great Thursday!

Our photo of the day comes from Jimmy Andrade showing a rainbow over Camp Bay on Monday. We may be in store for more rainbows as we hope to see more sun tomorrow and definitely Friday. Things are starting to look up.

Here are yesterday’s rainfall totals. In some ways, not as much as we feared, but still a lot of rain. Certainly not as much as La Ceiba, which has already picked up 10-14 inches of rain according to the two weather stations there. This morning hasn’t been bad on Roatan or Guanaja yet, with only a quarter of an inch midnight to 8 a.m. Utila has picked up 2 additional inches and Cayos Cochinos 3 inches.

We can see the rain off to our east, in what I like to call our “rain factory”. This is a low pressure system that will move west today and bring us more rain and turn our winds to the west. How strong those winds are depend on where you are. I think Utila and maybe West Bay may get the worst of those west winds, with some gusts to 30 mph. Waves should get worse on West Bay beach midday to afternoon. Seas this morning are 6 feet from the northeast, but as the day goes on those 6 foot waves should start coming from the west. As we get into the evening those waves should start to lessen.

After that things really start to improve tomorrow with a lot of scattered showers, but the winds will calm to 15-20 mph west winds and seas 4-5 feet. Friday looks even better with a few showers, especially in the morning, and 10-15 mph west winds and seas 3-4 feet. The weekend still looks good, though I think there a good chance of a Saturday morning shower with west winds 5 mph and seas 2 feet through the weekend.

Here’s the forecast for rain over the next 24 hours. You can see the estimate for us is another 3-4 inches today.

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Watch out for 4 p.m. high tide, especiallly if the surf is still up on West Bay Beach. Have a great, and safe, Wednesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is from Duane McNab and shows a bonfire at Marbella Beach. This coming weekend we should be able to light a bonfire on the beach, but until then we are going to get a lot of rain.

Most of us got some rain overnight, especially in the early morning hours.

At 7 a.m. there is some rain to our north and northwest, but it isn’t moving anywhere quickly. We should have scattered showers today, increasing toward evening. Wind this morning is from the northeast at 10 mph and seas 2 feet. Those should stay about the same through midday before starting to pick up this evening from the north.

We can see the high winds on their way. This morning they are north of the Yucatan, but they should arrive here around 5 or 6 a.m. tomorrow. When they arrive, we will have north winds 25-30 mph and gusts perhaps at times to 40 mph. Waves at their worst will be around 10 feet.

Wednesday winds turn to the west, still 25-30 mph and seas will still be high, 7-9 feet. We will have long periods of heavy rain Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thursday is starting to look A LITTLE better, with west winds 20-25 mph and seas 6-7 feet, perhaps a little less as we get into the afternoon. Rain should lessen in the afternoon as well.

Friday we will look for a possible morning shower and the weekend looks quite nice with low rain chances and very mild winds.

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Lowest tide is around 7:30 a.m. Have a great week and stay safe!

Good morning Bay Islands. No daily photo today as we look ahead to a stormy week. This morning we are mostly sunny, but we can see a storm brewing off the Mosquito Coast, what I like to call our rain factory. This should move west and will give us a good chance of rain this evening through tomorrow morning. This will also be the time this week that we have the best chance of a thunderstorm. Some of us may get missed, but if we get this storm tonight it could bring torrential rain and wind to some areas. And that’s just the start of our week.

You can see a large and very deep cold front moving down from the States. This is an unusually cold mass for early November. It should hit us Monday night into Tuesday, and it will bring very high north winds and heavy seas, especially on Tuesday, but heavy seas should linger into Wednesday. At its peak we’re looking at 8-10 foot seas and 30 mph north winds, not a fun time on the beach or in a boat.
As we move into Thursday, if you look closely, you can see a low pressure system forming near us that should turn our winds around to the west and bring us 20-25 mph west winds and 6-7 foot seas Thursday. Fortunately for us, things start lifting out Friday and next weekend actually looks nice. We just have to get there.

All of the forecast rain models are pretty consistent in forecasting 8-9 inches of rain for us and 12-15 inches of rain for the coast, though there areas of much more (notice the area marked for 24 inches, or 2 feet, of rain to the west of Utila). None of these models will be exact, but we will all get A LOT of rain! Be very careful, watch for low level flooding and impassable roads, especially Tuesday through Thursday!

Tomorrow will be a good day to stock up on your meat supply so you don’t have to go out the rest of the week. Check out Carniceria Rosita and they will set you up.

On the bright side, tides look mild. Have a great Sunday!