The headlines: Rain continues today and tomorrow, especially at night.

Midday Wednesday through Friday things look nice.

Our next norther approaches Saturday, looking to the tropics next Monday for potential tropical storms.

Good morning Bay Islands. Here’s our video for today.Unfortunately we have more rain to our east that is heading this way, probably for midmorning. Possible heavy rain tonight. Scattered showers Monday and Tuesday. Real improvement Wednesday and especially Thursday. Some sort of storm is predicted at the end of next weekend into the following Monday. Have a great Sunday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Here is the video for today. The headlines. At 7:45 a.m. we have rain moving in from the east. Not as much rain today as yesterday and the trend will be for less rain each day into Monday, but we will still have scattered showers, mid to late week look nice with only isolated showers. A weak norther and the possibility of a low pressure system bringing rain late next weekend into early the following week. Have a great weekend.

Good morning Bay Islands. Here are our rainfall totals overnight. Very consistent numbers across the big island. We’ve been a bit fortunate in this storm. Puerto Cortes has picked up over 16 inches yesterday and this morning. A bit more for Utila.

On our satellite we can see that we are in the middle of a lot of storms, though I put purple circles over areas that could give us some breaks later on today. All this activity is moving from east to west.

Winds this morning are from the north around 15 mph and seas on the north side are generally around 5 feet, though at Michael Rock Guanaja they are showing at 6 feet.

Today we will continue to have periods of rain, sometimes heavy and perhaps a peek or two of sunshine. Tonight more rain.

For the weekend we will still have scattered showers, though probably rainfall totals will be a little less than today. Monday we will have isolated showers and Tuesday through the end of the week is looking quite nice, with low winds and seas mostly 2 feet. Another good chance of rain is in the forecast for late next weekend. I’ll do a video later in the morning. Don’t forget to like and subscribe at youtube.com/@roatanweather and support us at patreon.com/roatanweather. Have a great Friday and stay safe!

Good morning. Here is the rainfall from midnight to 7 a.m.

And here is the rainfall since Wednesday.

We have quite a bit of rain to our north. And also scattered showers to our east. This rain is moving quite slowly to the southwest. We’re still looking for periods of heavy rain today, tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night. Heavier amounts should still be on the west side of Roatan and Utila. An additional 4-6 inches is forecast. Winds should pick up from the north tonight and tomorrow and the closer the wind gets, the wavier it will get on the north side. Seas right now are 4 feet at Michael Rock, Guanaja and at Camp Bay. They are 3 feet Sandy Bay and Utila. Forecasts still predict 6 foot seas this evening and tomorrow.
Rain should be less Saturday midday through Sunday though we will still have scattered showers. Starting Monday we will have lower rain chances, around 30 percent each day, and calmer winds and seas. The rain for the following weekend is not looking so bad and definitely nothing like this system. Have a great Thursday!

The 6 p.m. update lowers the likelihood of a tropical storm to 30 percent and moves the box south to Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Panama (!). No tropical storm for us this weekend. We are still looking for heavy rains and seas from our norther tomorrow and Friday.

On our satellite we can see that we are in the middle of a lot of storms, though I put purple circles over areas that could give us some breaks later on today. All this activity is moving from east to west.

Winds this morning are from the north around 15 mph and seas on the north side are generally around 5 feet, though at Michael Rock Guanaja they are showing at 6 feet.

Today we will continue to have periods of rain, sometimes heavy and perhaps a peek or two of sunshine. Tonight more rain.

For the weekend we will still have scattered showers, though probably rainfall totals will be a little less than today. Monday we will have isolated showers and Tuesday through the end of the week is looking quite nice, with low winds and seas mostly 2 feet. Another good chance of rain is in the forecast for late next weekend. I’ll do a video later in the morning. Don’t forget to like and subscribe at youtube.com/@roatanweather and support us at patreon.com/roatanweather. Have a great Friday and stay safe!

Rain total for October 2023: We are officially entering 28.54 inches in the record books for the month and that was about average across the island. From January to September we got exactly 26 inches. In October we got more than that. Our rainfall went from 30 percent of the year’s average to 63 percent. And of course the vast majority of that rain came in a five day period during our first norther midmonth. November has, on average 17 inches of rain. We definitely should beat that, with a big chunk of that coming in the first four days of the month.

These totals are since midnight. Yesterday the west side got an additional 3 inches and the east side most of us got 2 inches.

You can see a storm just to our northeast that brought all the rain.
Rain today.
More rain tomorrow.
The most rain tomorrow night into Friday.
Seas will be 2-3 feet today with west winds.
Winds shift to the north tomorrow at 5-10 mph and seas 5 feet on the north side.
Friday should be the windiest day with north winds gusting up to 30 mph and seas around 8 feet on the north side.

What could be Tropical Storm Vince did not get more organized last night. The National Hurricane Center lowered its tropical depression probability to 50 percent.
Whatever it becomes, most models show it striking Nicaragua sometime Saturday but several models bring its moisture our way Saturday night and Sunday with more heavy rain. Monday and especially Tuesday look a little nicer. Rain predictions through Friday are for another 6-8 inches and what we get this weekend depends on where our storm goes. Have a great Wednesday!