Cloudy with Rain

The CoCoView Resort Weather Forecast

This weather forecast is intended for CoCoView Resort guests and applies only to the south side of Roatan

CoCoView is at 16.4°N Latitude x 86.4°W Longitude
in the
   NW Caribbean Sea

             CoCoView Resort, www.cocoviewresort.com , 800-510-8164

Friday, January 22, 2016
Skies will be partly cloudy.  Winds will be mostly westerly in direction at 5 mph to 25 mph. Seas will be calm to rough at 1 ft to 4 ft. or higher  There is a chance of rain late today and tomorrow with the passage of a cold front.
The air temperatures will range from the low 70sºF to mid 80s ºF or 25°C to 27ºC. Ocean water temperatures are 78°F to 82°F or 25ºC to 27ºC.

Fig 1 - Today's Wind and Weather Forecast

Fig 2 - 3 Day Cloud Cover-Rain Forecast

The Tropical Weather Outlook1. A cold front extending from the Florida Panhandle through the central Gulf of Mexico to Mexico near 18N93W will race through the basin today shifting E of the area tonight. Strong to gale force winds will follow the front...diminishing from W to E through Sat. Another cold front will move off the Texas coast on Mon. That front will reach from the Florida Big Bend to the Bay of Campeche, Mexico around sunrise on Wed with near gale conditions developing across the W central Gulf of Mexico.
2. Atlantic high pressure will support strong trades across the S central and SE Caribbean through Sat. A strong cold front will move into the NW Caribbean this afternoon...reaching from central Cuba to NE Nicaragua Sat morning...from the Windward Passage to Costa Rica by Sun morning...then will stall and weaken from the Dominican Republic to western Panama by early Mon and become diffuse through early Tue.

Fig 3 - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer

The Tides: Moon and Sun

low tide 1:36 am LT                                               Sunrise – 6:19 am LT>111° East
high tide 8:08 am LT                                              Sunset – 5:39 pm LT < 250° West
low tide 2:08 pm LT                                               Moon Rise – 4:38 pm LT> 72° East
high tide 7:50 pm LT                                              Moon Set – 4:54 am LT < 289° West

Fig 4 - Moon

Day Light Hours: 11 hours, 20 minutes (+33)