Thursday, November 3, 2016

Mostly Cloudy

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

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Thursday, November 03, 2016
Skies will be mostly cloudy. There is a chance of scattered rain showers and isolated thunderstorms today. Winds will be moderate and mostly easterly in direction at 20 mph or less.  Seas will be moderate at 2ft. to 4ft.  The air temperatures will range from the high 70sºF to the mid to high 80s ºF or 26°C to 27ºC. Ocean water temperatures are 80°F to 82°F or 26ºC to 27ºC.




The Tropical Weather Outlook
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. Gulf of Mexico - A trough will persist over the SW Gulf through the weekend. A pre-frontal trough accompanied by tstms will move into the far NE Gulf waters late tonight followed by a cold front early Fri. The cold front will pass through the Straits of Florida on Sat night.
2. Caribbean Sea - Fresh to strong the N-Central and NW Caribbean will gradually diminish today. A trough extending SW across the Leewards will gradually dissipate through Fri. A surface trough over the Gulf of Honduras will drift S and merge into the monsoon trough across the far SW waters this weekend. A surface low near 14N69W will drift SW and weaken to a trough along 69W on Fri and Sat...with another low developing along the trough near the N coast of Colombia on Sun into Mon.
3. ...Special Features...
3a. Tropical cyclone formation is not expected for the next 48 hours.
3b. A surface trough is along 31N48W to a 1007 mb low pressure center that is near 25N52W, to 18N63W in the Caribbean Sea, to a 1010 mb low pressure center that is near 14N69W in the Caribbean Sea. S to SW gale-force winds are present in the Atlantic Ocean, from 23N to 26N within 120 nm to the E of the 1007 mb low pressure center and trough. Expect sea heights to range from 10 feet to 15 feet. the gale-force wind continues in the forecast for the next 36 hours or so.
3c. A deep layer trough passes through 32N56W to 27N58W 20N62W 15N68W 10N69W in NW Venezuela. The trough extends from the Atlantic Ocean, across Puerto Rico, into the Caribbean Sea, and into NW Venezuela. Comparatively drier air in subsidence is apparent in water vapor imagery to the north and northwest of the trough, in the Atlantic Ocean, and in the Caribbean Sea across Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Cuba. Convective precipitation: widely scattered moderate to isolated strong from 19N to 32N between 44W and 52W in the Atlantic Ocean. Isolated moderate from 14N to 19N between 50W and 60W elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Scattered moderate to strong in the Caribbean Sea from 14N to 16N between 65W and 67W. Isolated moderate elsewhere from 18N southward between 60W and 70W. Isolated moderate in the Caribbean Sea also from 18N southward from 70W to 83W.
Fig 3 - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer
The Tides: Moon and Sun 
The Tides: Moon and Sun
low tide  4:12am LT                         Sunrise – 5:45 am LT>106° East
high tide 12:06 pm LT                      Sunset – 5:16 pm LT < 254° NW
low tide 5:43 pm LT                         Moon Rise – 8:50 am LT<109° East
high tide  10:14 pm LT                     Moon Set – 8:29 pm LT>251º West

Fig 4 - Moon

Day Light Hours:   11 hours, 31 minutes (-44s)

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