The CoCoView Resort Weather Forecast for Wednesday March 14, 2012

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

Wednesday March 14, 2012

Again today, skies will be mostly sunny with mid to high level clouds. Seas will be choppy at 2 to 4 feet. Winds will be E to ENE at 10 to 20 mph; although the official forecast is for stronger winds this afternoon and evening. There is a chance of early morning, late night showers.

Fig 1 – Today's Wind Forecast 

Fig 2 – Today's Graphicast 

Fig 3 – Today's Tropical Atlantic IR Image 

The air temperatures will range from the high 70s (ºF) to the low to mid 80s (ºF) or 21ºC to 29ºC.

Ocean water temperatures are 78 to 79ºF or 23 to 24ºC. Visibility is generally 20 to 80 feet.

The Tides: Moon and Sun

high tide 3:26 pm LT                    Moon Rise – 12:28 am LT

low tide 9:08 am LT                     Moon Set – 11:05 am T

high tide 2:36 am LT                    Sunrise – 5:56 am LT

low tide 9:03 pm LT                     Sunset – 5:57 pm LT

Star Gazing

Venus and Jupiter have been dancing toward each other in the night sky for months, and they have finally come together this week. Look in the western sky after dark to see them.

Venus and Jupiter are putting on a rare spectacle in sky; the two brightest planets in the sky are so close together that you can block both of them out with a few fingers held at arm's length. The celestial action peaks tomorrow, Thursday (March 15), when Venus and Jupiter line up in what's known as a planetary conjunction.

Venus-Jupiter conjunctions are fairly special events, occurring roughly every 13 months. And this one should be the best conjunction for several years to come, because the two planets will be visible for so long in the evening sky.

Venus and Jupiter in the western sky