Feb. 4, 2023: Good morning Bay Islands! We have lots of rain to our west and north, but that is moving away from us. We should have mostly sunny skies today with only a slight chance of a shower. Winds will continue to be almost calm and seas will drop from 2 feet this morning to 1 foot this afternoon.
Rain chances overnight and in the early morning hours will be around 40 percent tonight, Sunday night and Monday night. Days will continue calm.
East winds return Tuesday with dry conditions through the rest of next week. We’re still watching the possibility of a norther a week from today. Have a great weekend!

Rain over most of the island was pretty consistent at 5-6 inches, though West End recorded more than 9 inches and West Bay recorded less than 4 inches. We’ll put 5.46 in the books. That is the lowest rain total for the month since 2016 and almost exactly half the normal rainfall of 11 inches. We are transitioning to the dry season, with February averaging 5.43 inches, before we enter our driest months of March-May.

Feb. 3, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! We had some showers this morning on the east side of the island, giving Punta Blanca a tenth of an inch and Jonesville Point and Politilly just enough to get the ground wet.

Today we will have much calmer winds and seas, around 5-10 mph and seas 1-2 feet all the way through Monday. We will have scattered showers and a mix of sun and clouds. Rain showers will be mostly at night and in the morning, but we will also have an occasional afternoon shower during this period. Rainfall totals still look pretty low, so I wouldn’t cancel any plans. Actually this will be a great weekend to get out on the water. Our easterly winds get gusty again starting Tuesday, when our rain chances go down. Have a great Friday!

Feb. 2, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands. I haven’t seen any groundhogs, but I saw a couple of island rabbits yesterday.
This morning we have some clouds and Punta Blanca just picked up .02 of an inch at 9 a.m. This morning around 1 a.m. West Bay got a quarter of an inch of rain.

We’ll have morning clouds and a chance of a light shower before we get sunny skies this afternoon. The main change in our weather will be much calmer winds, around 10-15 mph and seas at 2 feet today and even calmer Friday into the weekend. We’ll also have clouds and scattered showers each morning through Tuesday, and our afternoons will be mostly sunny, but there may be some scattered showers even in the afternoon tomorrow.
Starting Tuesday we will get back to windy conditions with seas 3-4 feet and it will be drier through the middle of next week. We’re looking at more scattered showers for the weekend of Feb. 11. Have a great Thursday!

Feb. 1, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! The rain and clouds stuck around longer yesterday than I thought they would, giving many of us about a third of an inch of rain yesterday. We also got a round of rain just after midnight, giving many of us about a tenth of an inch. This morning we woke up with gusty winds and seas around 4 feet, especially on the south side.

Today we will have one more windy day and night, with daytime winds from the east 15-20 mph and nighttime winds 20-25 mph and seas 3-4 feet. There will only be a slight chance of rain tonight and tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow the winds will be a bit calmer, around 15 mph and seas 2-3 feet.

Tomorrow night into Friday morning there is a decent chance of seeing a shower. Friday should be partly cloudy with northeast winds 10-15 mph and seas around 2 feet.

Saturday through Tuesday there will be scattered showers each day, and the chance of heavy rain is better farther west. There will be periods of sun and clouds and periods of rain. Winds will be light and seas 1-2 feet. Have a great Wednesday!

As of 9:24 here are the rain totals for the island. As you can see, I’m the big winner here on Jonesville Point with about a quarter of an inch of rain.

Our current satellite shows clouds moving toward the northwest, so we should have some clouds and a few showers around through mid-morning. The afternoon will be sunny and getting windier as the evening goes along, up to 30 mph tonight. We will continue to have a chance of overnight or early morning showers tomorrow and Thursday, but otherwise mostly sunny and windy today and tomorrow. Thursday the winds start calming to around 15 mph and even calmer Friday into the weekend. Starting Saturday into the early part of next week we will have a better chance of scattered showers, around a 50 percent chance each day, but we will also have periods of sun each day. Have a great Tuesday!

Good morning, Bay Islands! Most locations on the big island got a little under a tenth of an inch, though as of 11 a.m. West Bay, West End and Utila had gotten no measureable rain. There is still a small chance of a shower through about noon, especially west.
Otherwise today should be mostly sunny with east winds around 15 mph and seas around 3 feet (1 meter).
Tonight there will be another chance of an overnight or early morning shower, with winds 20-25 mph and seas 3-4 feet.
Tomorrow, especially tomorrow night and Wednesday night look pretty windy, with daytime winds aroudn 20 mph and nighttime winds up to 30 mph. Seas in the daytime will be 4 feet and 5 feet at night. Thursday winds start to calm as our next cold front approaches. Winds and seas Friday through Monday look much calmer and this weekend there is a good chance of scattered showers. Have a great week!

Jan. 29, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands. This morning around 2:30 West Bay got a shower with .18 of an inch. Punta Blanca picked up a very light shower last night around 11:30. The rain on radar this morning is mostly to our north, though a small shower somewhere is possible. Otherwise it will be mostly sunny with east winds 15 mph and seas 3-4 feet.

Tonight the rain chance is very small with east winds gusting to 20 mph.

Tomorrow will be much like today, but tomorrow night into Tuesday morning there will be a better chance of a shower, around 30 percent.

Tuesday night through Thursday night will be a bit windier, with daytime winds gusting to 20 mph and nighttime winds up to 25 or perhaps 30 mph. Seas Tuesday night through Thursday will be 4-5 feet.

Friday the winds calm as we have another cold front get near, but it will probably fall apart just to our north, bringing us somewhat better rain chances this weekend, but it may be just like last weekend’s cold front, which fell apart and brought us almost no rain. Have a great Sunday!

Jan. 28, 2023: Good morning, Bay Islands! We had some showers on radar west of Utila this morning, but no rain was recorded on the island. Our winds are generally from the northeast this morning and seas are 3 feet.
From now until Tuesday our weather will be the same, with daytime winds 15 mph from the east and nighttime winds about 20 mph and seas around 3 feet. Days will be mostly sunny. Each night there will be a small chance of a shower, but nothing major. Wednesday through Friday will be a little windier, with daytime winds around 20 mph and night time winds around 25 mph and seas around 4 feet.
This weekend there is a chance of rain, but like our last cold front, this one may disappear before it gets here. Have a great weekend!

Jan. 27, 2023: Good morning Roatan! As you can see from our radar at 7 a.m., most of the rain is to our west. Many locations on the east side got a small shower around 5 p.m. yesterday that gave us .01 of an inch of rain. Utila has gotten .04 of an inch over night. Hardly enough to keep the dust down.
Our seas and winds are much calmer this morning, 2 feet on the south side and 1 foot on the north side.
We can’t rule out a small shower somewhere, especially this morning, but we will be mostly dry and partly cloudy with northeast winds getting to 15 mph this afternoon and seas to 3 feet.
Tonight we will have another chance of rain, especially around sunrise, with east winds 15-20 mph and seas around 3 feet.
Tomorrow should be mostly sunny with winds continuing 15-20 mph and seas 3-4 feet.
Tomorrow night the chance of rain is very small, perhaps 20 percent.
This cycle of small rain chances overnight to sunrise and nice days with 15 mph winds and 3 foot seas continues through Monday, when the chance of rain goes away completely and our nights get a little windier, up to 25 mph. We stay dry until the next front gets close to us next weekend. Have a great Friday!