Good morning Bay Islands. Our late entries competing for a free excursion with Jolly Roger Roatan are strong! This morning’s photo of the day comes from Brad Ryon who took this photo at Little Bight in Utila. This morning we still have fairly light winds and lots of rain to our west. More in comments.

On satellite this morning we see a lot of high clouds that are moving to the south and a few popcorn clouds out there. There are storms on the coast of Belize, but those should stay away from us. We will continue mostly sunny today with a 30 percent chance of a shower towards evening. Our forecast is looking drier for the end of the weekend and the early part of the week, maybe 20 percent chances of an isolated shower overnights and early mornings.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to fairly mild winds 5-10 mph from the east and seas 1-2 feet. This morning and tomorrow morning we will stay right around there, but in the evenings we should get a little windier, 12-17 mph and seas around 3 feet. Overall, our winds for the week ahead look pretty mild, though not dead calm.

The tropics look amazingly calm for late August-early September with nothing in the forecast causing any concern for us.

Tides continue to run on the high side. Have a great weekend!

Good morning Bay Islands. At 9 a.m. we are dealing with some rain showers on Roatan, but even more intense rain for Utila, which has gotten almost an inch in about the last hour. As you can see there is more rain off to the east as we are dealing with the remnants of a tropical disturbance that will bring us off-and-on rain, sometimes heavy, today tonight and tomorrow. Friday, after a few morning showers, should be drier and the weekend should be drier, with about a 30 percent chance of overnight and morning showers. Winds today and tomorrow will be from the east 5-10 mph with 1-2 foot seas, except in squalls when we could get some gusts. Winds get back to 10-15 mph and 3 foot seas Friday into the weekend. Have a great Wednesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our satellite shows mostly clear skies overhead and we should stay mostly dry, with 30 percent chances of rain overnights and mornings through the weekend. Starting Monday, that chance increases to 40 percent and includes possible scattered showers during the day on Monday. The main story is we are losing our calm winds. This morning we are 5-10 mph from the east with 1 foot seas, but we should see that slowly increase to 15 mph daytimes winds and 2-3 foot seas and 15-20 mph nighttime winds and 3 foot seas.

As you plan your menu for the weekend, don’t forget to head over to Carniceria Rosita for the best meats on the island!

Low tide is 1:30 p.m. Have a great Thursday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Monica Pleitez and shows the dead calm sea’s effect on a palapa at Las Palmas near the airport. We will continue to have dead calm today and tomorrow, but starting tomorrow night we will notice a slight increase in nighttime winds and by the weekend we will be back to daytime winds 10-15 mph and nighttime 15-20 mph with 2-3 foot seas. We will continue mostly dry, with only small chances of showers overnights and early mornings.

The latest NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center map shows a series of potential storms behind Category 3 Hurricane Erin. The one coming off the coast of Africa is forecast to go a little further south than the others, but right not it isn’t forecast to do much. One thing I will say is that a surge of cooler air at the end of August over the eastern US could have the effect of forcing systems more into the Caribbean, so keep your eyes open. We will too.

Low tide is 12:30 p.m. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Nancy Sikora sends us our photo of the day of sunrise at Caribe Bight. Send your photos with name and location to bookmybio@gmail.com for a chance at photo of the month and an excursion worth $100 with Jolly Roger Roatan on a cruise day.

Perfect weather continues.

On satellite at 7:20 a.m. we hardly have any popcorn clouds around. Around midnight, there was a small shower near Jonesville and Politilly that brought about a tenth of an inch, but other than that, we’ve been dry. We will continue to be dry and the Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast is for continued dead calm conditions, so enjoy life on the water! But without wind and clouds, it will be plenty hot!

Hurricane Erin continues to bring winds (close to 50 mph) and waves to the Turks and Caicos and will bring some wind and rain to the Bahamas in the next few days, but it is expected to weaken from its current Category 4 and turn out to sea. Behind it is another storm, taking roughly the same path that will probably become Fernand. But as for us, no tropical storm possibilities in the extended forecast.

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Lowest tide is 11:30 a.m. Have a great week!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is a screenshot from the webcam of CoCoView near French Key. You can see our flat calm waters. Flat seas and calm winds will continue into the first part of the week, and the end of the week only looks slightly windy. All in all we have a great week ahead.

On satellite we can see a few clouds that might have a shower in them. All of this is slowly moving south. I think most of us will stay dry. The forecast into the first part of the week is mostly dry, with only a small chance of a quick morning shower.

Low tide is 10:30 a.m. Have a great Sunday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Jeffrey Hill, who notes that God perfectly balanced the sun on top of Calabash Hill overlooking Oakridge/Pandy Town. We have some storms to the east of us, but we should be dry today. Perhaps a slightly better chance of showers tonight.

You can see on satellite at 8 a.m. there are quite a number of storms over toward Swan Island, but we just have some high clouds. Those storms should disappear as the morning goes on, leaving us with mostly sunny skies. Tonight the Euro really wants to give us a few showers, so we will increase the chance overnight and early tomorrow morning to 40 percent, but for the most part, the weekend should be dry. We will continue mostly dry into next week.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to 12 mph east winds and seas 2 feet. Today is the day we start seeing conditions really calm, with a weekend of almost flat calm conditions. On the downside, that means it’s going to be hot, with mostly sunny skies and not much wind. The temperature will only be around 90 (32C), but it will definitely feel hotter.

Good news from Roatan Operation Animal Rescue. A brigade of doctors is coming down to do a spay and neuter clinic on the East End and they are raising money to cover costs (about $25 per animal, a great deal). One way to assist in that effort is to buy Roatan Pets food from Mitch Cummins for your furry friend. Ten percent of proceeds goes to the great work of ROAR.

Lowest tide is right about now (8:10 a.m.) but it really isn’t all that low. Have a great Friday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day is this moon shot from Michael Fulford, taken from his boat docked at Trico in Jonesville Point/Czech Village. The rain missed most of us (except for Guanaja) yesterday. Will it miss us today?

This is our overnight satellite and you can see the counterclockwise rotation of a low pressure system moving to our north toward Belize. This morning we again have some storms to our east. These should at least bring some midmorning clouds and perhaps a shower here or there, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Our forecast continues to have low chances of overnight or morning showers, about 20 percent each day.

Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to become our first Atlantic hurricane of the season (MidAugust, can you believe it?). But it continues to move far from us, completely outside of the Caribbean. There is nothing in the extended forecast that makes us worried about the next two weeks around here.


Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up to east winds 15 mph and seas 3 feet. They should calm during the day to 10 mph and 2 feet. We will continue with similar winds through Friday. This weekend into the first part of next week we are looking at close to dead calm conditions, perfect for being on the sea.

With great weekend weather in the forecast get ready with the best in steaks and pork chops at Carniceria Rosita in French Harbour and Coxen Hole!

Tides continue to be relatively high. Have a great Wednesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Katy Pandy with some heart-shaped clouds covering the full moon over Gravel Bay a couple of nights ago.
This morning we have some storms off to our east and chances of rain this evening.

This morning’s satellite shows the storms in what I like to call our rain factory over near the Mosquito Coast. These will move our way this afternoon meaning an increasing chance of rain as we get to nightfall, but there is some indication most of these storms will move to our north, so there isn’t a guarantee of rain. I’ll call it 50/50 through tomorrow morning. After that, we go back to low 20 percent chances of rain, mostly overnights and mornings, into the weekend.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We will have 15 mph daytime winds with 2-3 foot seas and 20 mph nighttime winds with 3-4 foot seas through this week. This weekend winds get quite calm.

Out in the eastern Atlantic we have Tropical Storm Erin (that’s right, it’s almost mid-August and we are only up to “E”, the fifth named storm). As you can see in the map it is forecast to stay east and north of the Caribbean, probably not even threatening the US as it turns back to sea. Our tropical forecast remains very calm.

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Tides remain higher than average as our moon begins to wane. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning Bay Islands. Our photo of the day comes from Troy Standish and shows our full moon over Fiddler’s Bight near Calabash. The most is reflecting in the calm waters. We will be calm much of today, but we pick up our trade winds tonight into tomorrow.

Our satellite shows clear skies this morning. We should be mostly dry through Monday, with a small chance of isolated showers, mostly overnights and mornings. Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning it still looks like a small tropical wave will pass over that should give us better chances of more substantial rain.

Wind and Galaxy Wave forecast: We wake up with calm winds and seas. Winds will pick up this evening to 15 mph and seas to 2 feet. Starting tomorrow we will be back to more typical trade winds, with east winds 15 mph and seas 2 feet daytimes and 20 mph and 3 feet nights.

Through tomorrow you can get a special deal of 1000 lempira round trip to Le Ceiba when you buy your Roatan Ferry Galaxy Wave tickets at Petrosun!

Tides will run on the high side as we continue with our full moon. Have a great weekend!