Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day shows a young man running along West End Beach and comes from Michele Akel.
This morning we have some showers over the east side and many of us got morning rain good for a tenth of an inch or so as of 8 a.m. Monday and Tuesday rain totaled 3-4 inches for most of us with 5 inches on Utila. The next two days will be MUCH drier before scattered showers return Friday into the weekend.

Our 8 a.m. satellite shows clouds, especially over the east end and Guanaja. These clouds aren’t moving much, but they should decrease as the morning goes along. Midday and afternoon we will be partly sunny with low chances of any passing showers. Tomorrow looks like the driest day of the week, with very low chances of any showers. Friday into the weekend we will have chances of morning showers each day, with rain totals probably not more than a third of an inch on any day.

Wind and wave forecast: Today we will have light and variable winds and seas 2 feet due to swell. Starting tomorrow into the weekend we will get 10-15 mph east winds and seas 2-3 feet, especially south side.

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

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Bob Agnew who captured a rainbow from West End. We have lots of clouds and rain around. Yesterday 2 inches was a fairly common rain amount across our islands and many locations, especially west side, have gotten an inch this morning. We have rain chances the rest of today into tonight, but things are looking better for tomorrow and Thursday.

At 9 a.m. we have lots of clouds and showers on satellite, but also some blue sky to our north. Maybe some of these clouds will push south and give us some sunshine later today’s but we will still have scattered showers to deal with. Tomorrow should be mostly dry after possibly a morning shower. Thursday looks mostly dry as well. Forty percent daily rain chances, mostly in the mornings, return Friday into the weekend.

Wind and Wave forecast: We start the day with 10 mph northeast winds and seas 3-4 feet. Those winds and seas will stay with us the rest of the day, but tomorrow winds look much calmer, though we will still have seas around 2 feet. Starting Thursday into the weekend we get the return of easterly trade winds 15 mph and seas 2-3 feet.

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

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Cathy Brown showing clouds at sunset. We will be dealing with scattered showers today and those shower should become more numerous tomorrow and Tuesday.

At 9:30 a.m. we have a lot of clouds to our north, but these are not moving our way right now. But we will have lots of scattered clouds around and scattered showers. Rain totals over next three days should be 1-5 inches. So not a constant rain, but probably not good days for a beach wedding.

Wind and wave forecast: We start the day with east/northeast winds 15 mph and seas 3 feet. Those winds will shift to the north later today. Winds and seas will be around 15 mph and 3 feet from the north Monday and Tuesday. Winds will get calmer Wednesday and turn to the east Thursday into the weekend. Have a great Sunday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is from Marcy Schwartz and shows Sunset in Calabash Bight. We had a few showers early this morning good for a tenth to a quarter of an inch of rain. Scattered showers will be more common today, especially this evening. We also are watching for a norther Monday evening into Tuesday.

At 8:15 a.m. we can see lots of clouds and few showers around, but also some sun. The winds in the upper atmosphere are not very strong, so there these showers are moving slowly. This can mean that one location can get a shower that dumps a lot of rain and doesn’t move away quickly. Expect lots of scattered showers today. Tomorrow into the weekend, expect scattered showers, mostly overnights and mornings.

This is the Canadian model showing precipitation through Wednesday. You can see the cold front washing into the Caribbean and Atlantic. Most of the cold air is going into the Atlantic, but enough of it is coming our way that a wave of rain will run through the Bay Islands Monday night into Tuesday. Right now we’re looking at 4 inches of rain or so and north winds 12-17 mph and seas around 5 feet — not the worst of northers, but enough to make for a rainy, wavy day.

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

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jim Jaskunas on Sandy Bay looking north. We can see some cumulus clouds in the background. Today looks nice and over the next few days most of our rain should be overnight if we get any.

On satellite at 8:30 we see some storms on the coast of Belize, but mostly sunny skies for us. It should stay that way today. Tonight a cold front stalls well to our north. It may push some overnight showers our way tonight, but it isn’t a sure thing. We may have a few showers tomorrow, especially in the morning time, but they should be long lasting. We had been worried about a norther next week, but the latest models are saying that is less likely, so that’s good news.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds around 5 mph and seas 2 feet. That should calm to 1 foot this afternoon and things look quite calm through Wednesday.

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Low tides are 6:30 p.m. and a.m. Have a great week!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Samuel Fagone and shows sunset from Sandy Bay Beach. We have a sunny morning, but clouds to our east that may mean a rainier afternoon.

The rain that we thought would come tonight has formed a little early. We can see it on satellite at 7 am. off the Mosquito Coast (our rain factory). Some of the rain is just east of Guanaja, so we may see showers starting midmorning, especially on the east end of the Bay Islands, but rain should become more widespread as we get into the afternoon and mostly end by midnight. After that Sunday and Monday look drier. We’re still looking for a cold front to stall to our north and push a few showers our way Tuesday.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: This morning we wake up to east winds 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet. We should calm this afternoon to 5-10 mph east winds but still with 2-3 foot seas. Winds and seas will be similar tomorrow, but winds and seas are looking calmer for Monday through Wednesday.

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Low tides are 4 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. under our full moon. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is the first of our month’s full moon shots. This one comes from Larry Cox on the south side.
So far most of our weather stations have stayed dry as of 6:45 a.m., though Guanaja picked up a third of an inch at 4:45 a.m. Today should be mostly dry, but we have our eyes on an increase in showers possible Saturday night/Sunday morning as well as Tuesday.

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is the first of our month’s full moon shots. This one comes from Larry Cox on the south side.
So far most of our weather stations have stayed dry as of 6:45 a.m., though Guanaja picked up a third of an inch at 4:45 a.m. Today should be mostly dry, but we have our eyes on an increase in showers possible Saturday night/Sunday morning as well as Tuesday.

Here’s the Euro forecast for the next two weeks. We can see a wave of rain forecast for Saturday evening into Sunday morning. We also see a cold front dying to our north Monday evening into Tuesday. The GFS thinks it will die far enough away to keep our rain chances down, though the Euro still thinks we will get some rain out of it. Most models are showing a stronger norther coming in around the 13th to the 15th that could be a classical island norther with plenty of rain and wind. We’ll keep an eye on it.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We start the day with east winds 10 mph and 2 foot seas. We should calm a bit this afternoon to 5 mph and 1-2 foot seas. Tomorrow through Monday look much like today.

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Tonight’s low tide will be at 3:30 a.m. under a “supermoon” so the moon will look super big. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Dirk Yelinek who captured some rain clouds from Carib Tesoro in north West Bay. The east side especially dealt with some rain clouds through midday yesterday, bringing a half inch of rain. Many of us got an early morning shower this morning good for about a tenth of an inch. We still have some rain clouds around at 8:30 a.m., but rain should get less as we get to midday and afternoon.

At 8:30 a.m. we see quite a few clouds over Roatan, but fewer clouds as we look east, from which direction our clouds are coming this morning, so showers should decrease as the day goes on. Tomorrow and Saturday look drier, though this time of year we really can’t rule out a stray shower here or there. Sunday into Monday the chances of morning showers goes up, and then on Tuesday a cold front will stall to our north, but should bring off and on showers through the day.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: This morning we have east winds 5-10 mph and seas 2 feet. As the day goes on we may calm even more to 1-2 feet. Daytime winds through Saturday will be very light and seas around 1 foot, so a great time to be in the water. Sunday a modest east wind and some swell may bring our seas back up to 3 feet.

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Low tide will be 2:30 a.m. and I’ll be looking for some awesome full moon photos for our Jolly Roger Roatan photo contest. Have a great Thursday!

November is normally our rainiest month, and a couple of northers made November our rainiest month again. We are putting 20.59 inches in the books, which was the total for Sandy Bay. That was about average for Roatan and Utila, while Guanaja recorded 11.17 inches, but there were some outages on Guanaja that may have made that total lower than actually experienced. We will end the year below average for rainfall unless we get another 20 inches in December, which is looking unlikely, as the first week of the month has a few showers here and there, but no northers in the forecast right now.

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is from Michelle Meyer, showing her daughter taking a look at the sunset on West Bay Beach.
Guanaja and a few spots in Sandy Bay picked up a very quick shower this morning, but most of us have been dry. We should be mostly dry today with very calm winds and seas.

On satellite at 8:30 a.m. we can see a few clouds and a shower here or there. There’s a possibility of a small shower, especially before noon, but most of us should stay dry. There’s a decent chance of overnight showers that could extend into early morning tomorrow. As the week goes on though, things should get even drier, with the end of the week and the weekend looking quite sunny.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: Buoys are showing 2 foot seas this morning, but to be honest the sea looks more like 1 foot to me. We will be quite calm today through Wednesday before the trade winds pick up a bit for the end of the week.

This week will be great for a ferry ride among the islands or to the mainland. Don’t forget to download your Roatan Ferry Galaxy Wave app on Apple App Store or Google Play.

Low tide will be quite low at 11 p.m. Have a great, and safe, Sunday!