Friday, March 17, 2017

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

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


Friday, March 17, 2017
Skies will continue to be  cloudy with a chance of scattered rain showers through Sunday as a cold front remains stationary over us. Winds will be moderate to strong and northerly in direction at 15 mph to 25 mph or higher. Seas will be  calm to rough at 1 ft. to 4 ft or higher. The air temperatures will range from the low 70sºF to the mid 80s ºF or 22°C to 24ºC. Ocean water temperatures are 79°F to 81°F or 26ºC to 27ºC.






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 - High pressure over the NE Gulf will shift over the NW Gulf Sat in response to a weak cold front moving across the SE U.S. The front will clip the NE Gulf Sat night and Sun. The high will return slowly E Sun night through Mon night. A thermal trough will produce strong winds over the eastern Bay of Campeche, Mexico during the overnight hours through Sun night.
3. Caribbean Sea - A stationary front extending from the eastern tip of Cuba to Cabo Gracias a Dios, Honduras will dissipate by Sat night. High pressure over the SE USA will generate strong winds W of the front through Sat night. Strong winds N of the Colombia coast will pulse to gale force Fri night. Large NE to E swell over tropical Atlantic waters will mix with NW swell on Fri night before subsiding late Sun.
3a. An upper-level anticyclonic circulation is centered over NW Venezuela near 09N68W providing much of the basin with southwesterly to westerly flow aloft. An upper-level trough over the western Atlantic supports a frontal system that enters the the western Caribbean as a stationary front from the Windward Passage near 20N74W to the coast of Nicaragua near 15N83W. Isolated showers are occurring within 100 nm on either side of the front. Moderate to fresh trades are expected through the overnight hours into Friday east of the front, while fresh to strong northeast winds will prevail across the northwest Caribbean west of the front. The overall pressure gradient supporting these winds is expected to relax by Sunday.

Fig 4 - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer
The Tides: Moon and Sun 
high tide 1:15 am LT                      Sunrise – 5:53 am LT>91° East
low tide  5:27 am LT                      Sunset – 5:57 pm LT < 269° NW
high tide  10:43 am LT                   Moon Rise – 10:19 pm LT<106° East
low tide  5:33 pm LT                      Moon Set – 9:21 am LT>256º West
                                                                                                                    
Fig 5 - Moon

Day Light Hours:   12 hours, 4 minutes, (+53s)

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