May 23, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. Our Caribbean is more like a small pond this morning with calm seas and winds. We will continue like this until Friday night when we get 10-15 mph and 2 foot (.6 meter) seas. Still not bad all the way through this weekend. No chance of rain until Friday night either. Starting Friday night we will start getting small nightly rain chances. Low tide is 6 p.m. Have a great Tuesday.

Good morning Bay Islands. We awake to calm winds and seas. These beautiful, but dry, conditions will last the rest of this week. Friday night we start getting small chances of rain back in the forecast. Because the forecast is kind of boring, I thought I would answer a reader’s question.

Because the forecast is kind of boring, I thought I would answer a reader’s question. David Trawick asks: What does it mean for the average person when we talk about high and low tide?
Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth. The side of the earth is pulled toward the moon, and the opposite side from the moon bulges up. These are the two high tides. The sun also contributes to this bulge, which is why the tides are more extreme during full moons and new moons, when the moon and sun are aligned. We’re in new moon phase now, so our low tide at 5:02 p.m. will be lower than the average low tide. Have a great week!

May 21, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to calm winds and seas. Believe it or not, West End got .01 of an inch around midday yesterday, hardly enough to get the ground wet. We have a few clouds around and can’t rule out a shower somewhere, but if anyone gets one, it will be short. We’ll be mostly dry and continue calm today. Scattered rain chances come back next weekend. Low tide is 4:12 p.m. Have a great Sunday!

May 20, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to 10 mph winds and 1-2 foot seas and that is about the windiest it is going to get for the next week.

This map shows the wave action for the Atlantic Ocean leading into the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it this calm in the entire region, and this will last most of the week ahead. It is almost like the Lesser Antilles and Bahamas are acting as a reef and the Gulf and Caribbean are a bay. If you had a big boat and wanted the travel around, this would be the week for it. But it better have a motor because there’s not much wind.

There will be a few clouds around today and a VERY slight chance of a shower toward midday. There will also be a VERY small chance of a shower tonight. After that there is NO chance of rain until the end of next week. With very few clouds and no wind, it’s going to be pretty hot. Low tide is 3:26 p.m. Have a great weekend!

Good morning, Bay Islands! We wake up to 15 mph winds and seas 1-2 feet. Those wind and sea conditions will continue today and tomorrow. Starting Sunday winds and seas get super-calm and will be like that at least through next week and perhaps longer. If you are in the States (or Canada, or anywhere in the world) and have the ability to make a last-minute trip to the islands, you’re not going to get a better weather week than next week for diving, snorkeling, swimming, boating and fishing.

Tonight and tomorrow night we will have a very low chance of an overnight shower, but otherwise we will be dry. Sunday into the first part of next week will be super-dry day and night. Toward the end of next week we will get a little bit better chance of some showers, especially overnight. Have a great Friday!

May 18, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. We wake up to 15 mph winds and 1-2 foot seas (.3-.6 meters). Winds and seas should stay in that area through Saturday. Starting Sunday we get even calmer and the seas will be pretty flat into the first part of next week.
Rain chances will be next to zero, except for Friday night into Saturday morning when we’ll have a small chance of a shower, maybe 30 percent. We’re at least 10 days away from good rain chances. Have a great Thursday!

Good morning Bay Islands! We wake up to calm winds and seas 1-2 feet (.3 to .6 meters). Today will be the last day of super-calm winds. Tomorrow through the weekend we will have moderate winds 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet (.6-1 meter). Next week looks super calm again.
As for rain, there is not much in the forecast until the end of the month, maybe a slight chance Friday night into Saturday morning, but even that is very low.

The video I’m including is the forecast for moisture in the atmosphere. You will notice a lot of greens and blues coming down over us for the next week or so. That indicates drier air. Toward the end of the month we should get more reds, indicating moist air that can bring rain. Let’s hope. We’ll have a very low tide at 1:22 p.m. Have a great Wednesday!

May 16, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands. No rain was recorded overnight on Roatan or Utila, but we saw rain on radar over toward Guanaja and Lisa Garcia reports that she picked up an inch over there. At 6:30 a.m. we have a small shower north of the island and one near Cayos Cochinos, but those should decrease as the day goes on.

We also got a little shake around 12:30 a.m. with a 4.2 earthquake. That’s pretty light as earthquakes go. In February we had a 5.5.

We wake up to calm winds and seas 1-2 feet (.3 to .6 meters). Those conditions should continue today and tomorrow. Starting Thursday we will have east winds 10-15 mph and seas 2-3 feet, nothing like the 30 mph winds of the past few weeks.

The next few days look dry. There is a small chance of an overnight shower Friday night and Saturday night, but otherwise we we look fairly calm and dry, great days to get out on the sea. Have a great Tuesday!

May 15, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! It may not be much but many of us have seen some rain this morning. There are showers on radar at 7:40 a.m. and we will continue to have a chance through the morning hours. We will get more sun around noon and after and less of a chance of rain, but we will have another chance of showers tonight and early tomorrow morning. After that Wednesday and Thursday look dry and a small chance of overnight and early morning rain returns for Friday night into the weekend.
Winds this morning are 15 mph and seas are 2 feet. They will remain around there today. Tomorrow and Wednesday look quite calm, with winds 3-7 mph and seas around 1 foot (.3 meter). After that winds pick up a little, but we’re not getting super-windy.
Low tide today occurs around noon. Have a great week!

Good morning Bay Islands! This morning our winds are around 20 mph and seas 3-4 feet (1-1.3 meters) after getting up to 38 mph and 6 feet (2 meters) overnight. Today and tonight will not be quite as windy. Winds today will be from the east around 15 mph and seas at 3 feet (1 meter). Tonight they will only get up to 20-25 mph and 4 feet (1.3 meters). Tomorrow will be even calmer with winds from the northeast at 10-15 mph and seas at 2 feet (.6 meters). Tuesday and Wednesday will be quite calm, with winds 5-10 mph and seas at 1 foot (.3 meters).

We are still watching the chances for rain. This morning there are showers over toward Livingston, Guatemala and southern Belize, but those won’t come this way.

We have high clouds that hold no rain this morning. Those will give way to sun this afternoon, but we will get some clouds lower in the atmosphere tonight that will give us a small chance of rain overnight into tomorrow morning.

We’ll have a small chance of rain during the day tomorrow, but our best hope is for rain Monday night into Tuesday morning. This will be a 50/50 chance and I’m sorry I can’t say more than that. I expect to see rain on the radar, but whether it is out to sea or manages to hit the island will decide whether we get some relief from our dusty roads. Wednesday and Thursday look dry, but toward the weekend we will have small chances of overnight showers. Low tide is 11:13 a.m. Have a great Sunday!