Good morning Bay Islands. Looks like we got a thundershower around 2:30 a.m. though I slept through it. Let me know in comments what you got at your place.

At 9 a.m. we are watching some thundershowers well to our north move to the west and away from us. We should be mostly sunny with east winds around 15 mph and seas 2-3 feet (.6-1 meter) today.
We’ll have another chance of showers or thundershowers overnight, but tomorrow we should see increasing clouds and a better chance of scattered showers from Monday evening through Wednesday morning. Winds starting Tuesday will be calmer, at 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. Have a great Sunday!

Sept. 9, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. At 7 a.m. most of the showers are between Belize and Utila but moving southwest, away from Utila. There is a small shower that may be affecting the east side of Guanaja. If you got a shower, let us know in comments.
We wake up to an east wind around 10 mph and seas at 2 feet. The should calm even more and we may get down to 1 foot seas this afternoon. There will be a small chance of rain overnight tonight but tomorrow will be mostly sunny with east winds 10-15 mph and seas at 2 feet.
Monday we will have increasing clouds and a decent chance of rain by evening. Good chances of scattered showers will be around from Monday evening through Wednesday morning. Tuesday through Thursday winds will be 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. Have a great weekend!

Sept. 8, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Looks like around 6 a.m. there may have been a thundershower in western Guanaja. If you saw some showers, let me know in comments.

What rain is out there seems to be moving away from us and decreasing. We should be partly cloudy today with east winds 7-12 mph and seas at 2 feet (.6 meters).

We will have another night with low rain chances tonight, but nighttime rain chances are a little better tomorrow night into Sunday morning and Monday and Tuesday rain chances go up, even during the daytime hours. Winds tomorrow through Monday will be 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet. Things get very calm again Tuesday through Friday of next week. Have a great Friday!

Sept. 7, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to mostly sunny skies and east winds around 15 mph and seas at 2-3 feet. The closest rain is over in the Guatemala-Belize coast and it isn’t coming our way. Winds and seas will stay right around 15 mph and 3 feet today before calming a bit tomorrow to 10 mph and 2 feet.
We will continue to have 20-30 percent chances of rain overnight and mostly dry days. Low tide is 10:30 a.m. This is a pretty typical, quiet island forecast. Enjoy!

Sept. 6, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! Around 6 a.m. a thundershower formed to the east of Guanaja. It doesn’t look like it’s moving very fast, but keep an eye out in Guanaja this morning. For the rest of us, we will have a small chance of a morning shower, but most of us will stay dry. Today will be partly cloudy with east winds 7-12 mph and seas around 2 feet. Tonight we will again have a 30 percent chance of a shower with east winds 12-17 mph and seas around 3 feet. The rest of this week should be much the same. Low tide is 9:30 a.m. Have a great Tuesday!

Sept. 5, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to clear skies and east winds 10-15 mph. We will be windier than we’ve been in the past, which will be good for the east side, since we will be out of RECO all morning. East winds will be 10-15 mph during the day and seas around 2 feet and 15-20 mph this evening and overnight and seas 3 feet. We will have around a 30 percent chance of an overnight shower this week. Those chances go up to around 40 percent this weekend. Have a great Tuesday

Good morning Bay Islands. Sandy Bay picked up a morning shower around 5:30 good for a third of an inch. There may still be a few showers out there, but they are few and far between. We’ll be mostly sunny and dry today with light winds and fairly calm seas. Starting tomorrow we will be a little windier, with daytime winds 7-12 mph and seas 2 feet and nighttime winds 12-17 mph and seas at 3 feet.
Tonight there is only a small chance of an overnight shower, but that chance goes up to 40 percent tomorrow night into Wednesday morning.

Low tide came early this morning at 6:30 a.m. and our next low tide is 8 a.m. tomorrow.

Taking a look at what’s going on in the Atlantic, the red X belongs to what will likely become Hurricane Lee. But Lee will turn north before entering the Caribbean, so we have nothing to worry about from him. The eastern seaboard of the US should be on alert, but one thing that may help them out, the Atlantic was cooled by the water churned up by Hurricane Franklin, so that may weaken the storm before it can threaten the US. Right now, there’s nothing to worry about in our part of the Caribbean. Have a great week!

Good morning Bay Islands. Here are some rain totals from last night’s storm. We were out of power most of the night on Jonesville Point and even had a 30 minute outage this morning around 7:30 p.m.

We’ve had a few showers around the island this morning. We will have scattered showers this afternoon and overnight. Winds should calm to 5-10 mph and seas will be 1-2 feet, except in squalls. We will continue to have scattered showers, especially at night, this week. East winds should get a little windier starting Tuesday. Have a great Sunday!

Sept. 2, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Our storm system from last night moved quickly across the mainland and is out in the Pacific this morning. Around 5 p.m. yesterday we got a gust of 40 mph on Jonesville Point and a tree fell in a friend’s yard in Lucy Point. West Bay picked up a 35 mph gust. But it was a lot of noise and not a lot of rain. All reporting stations reported between a tenth and a third of an inch of rain.
Today we will have east winds 15 mph and seas around 3 feet. Tomorrow and Monday should be calmer at 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet. Starting Tuesday we should have fairly calm days with east winds 7-12 mph and seas 1-2 feet and nights with winds 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet.
We will also be in a typical September weather pattern, with a fairly low chance of rain during the day, and a better chance of rain overnight and in the early mornings. But any showers we get will be scattered and should pass quickly. High tides are 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. and low tide is tomorrow morning at 5:15 a.m. Have a great weekend.

Rainfall for August 2023: We’re putting 3.8 inches in the books for August and that is a little above average across the island. Most locations got a little under 3 inches, but we will stay with Sandy Bay’s total for consistency. Even that is still below average for the month and we are two-thirds of the way through the year with only a quarter of the total expected rainfall for the year. We are well on our way for having a worse drought year than 2019 was. September is another 4 inch average month and is our last month before the wet season should start, halfway through the month of October. If anyone ever asks what is the best month to visit Roatan, I ALWAYS say September. We have generally calm seas and not a lot of rain and not a lot of crowds. But, of course, who listens to me? 😉