RTB Weather Forecast for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011

Roatan Weather Forecast

As presented by Radio Roatan, FM 101.1 or www.roatanradio.com

and

CoCoView Resort, www.cocoviewresort.com, 800-282-8932

 CoCoView is at 16.3°N Latitude x 86.5°W Longitude

In the

NW Caribbean Sea

Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011

Today, skies will be mostly sunny. Winds will be 5 to 15 mph from the ESE. The seas will be 1 to 4 feet. Winds have resumed their normal, diurnal, easterly air flow. 

Fig 1 – Forecast Wind Speed & Direction_110118

 

A weak cold front is forecast to enter the Gulf of Mexico today. It will push E and dissipate by Thursday. A second cold front will enter the NW Gulf on Thursday. It will move SE out of the Gulf and into the NW Caribbean by Saturday.

Fig 2 - Water Vapor, early am 110118

Fig 3 - Caribbean Graphicast 110118

The air temperatures will be in the low 70s (F) to the low 80s or 24 to 25 (C). Wind chill, may make it feel like the mid to high 60s, as water at depth, will feel warmer then the air at the surface.
At depth, ocean water temperatures are about 76F to77F or 25C or lower.

The tides:                                                  Moon and Sun

low tide 1:20 am LT                                       Moon Rise –4:34 am LT

high tide 7:57 am LT                                                   Moon Set – 5:03 pm LT

low tide 1:46 pm LT                                      Sunrise – 6:18 am LT

high tide 7:23 pm LT                                                  Sunset - 5:37 pm LT