Monday, December 5, 2016

Mostly Sunny

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


Monday, December 05, 2016
Skies will be mostly sunny Winds will be moderate to calm and easterly in direction at 20 mph or less.  Seas will be moderate at 1 ft. to 4ft. or less. 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 78°F to 80°F or 25ºC to 26ºC






The Tropical Weather Outlook
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. There are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic at this time. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th.
2. Gulf of Mexico - A cold front extending from a 1007 mb low pressure near 27N96W to near Tuxpan, Mexico will move eastward across the Gulf waters today and Tue...with fresh to strong winds behind it today. A stronger cold front is forecast to enter the NW Gulf on Wed night followed by strong to gale force winds through Fri night.
3. Caribbean Sea - High pressure N of area will support fresh to locally strong trades near the coast of Colombia and NW Venezuela through Thu morning. Similar wind speeds are expected across the W  Caribbean...including the Gulf of Honduras...this evening and tonight. A cold front will enter the NW Caribbean Thu night into Fri followed by fresh to strong northeast winds and building seas.
3a. ...Caribbean Sea... An upper ridge is anchored over Nicaragua dominating the Caribbean again this morning. A shortwave upper trough is moving through the far northwest Caribbean along 84W north of 19N to across west Cuba generating scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms within 75 nm of a line from 16N83W to over west Cuba near 22N84W. A monsoonal surface trough extends across the southwest Caribbean from 10N75W to 11N82W with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms within 30/45 nm of a line from 14N82W along 11N79W to Colombia near 10N75W. This is leaving the remainder of the Caribbean with mostly clear skies this morning. Surface ridge over the west Atlantic will support fresh to locally strong trade winds near the coast of Colombia and northwest Venezuela through Thursday morning. Similar winds are expected in the W Caribbean this evening and tonight.

Fig 4 - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer
The Tides: Moon and Sun 
high tide  12:33 am LT                  Sunrise – 6:01 am LT>113° East
low tide  5:29am LT                      Sunset – 5:15 pm LT < 247° NW
high tide 12:51 am LT                   Moon Rise – 10:45 pm LT<103° East
low tide 7:09 pm LT                      Moon Set – 10:40 am LT>259º West
                                                                                                                                 
Fig 5 - Moon

Day Light Hours:  11 hours, 13 minutes (-19s)

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