The CoCoView Resort Weather Forecast for Sunday July 15, 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

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Sunday July 15, 2012

Again today, skies will be partly sunny with mid to high level clouds. Seas will be choppy at 2 to 4 feet. Winds will be moderate from the E to ENE, at 10 to 15 mph during most of the day; increasing to 15 to 25 mph this afternoon and evening.

A surface trough is over the far SE Gulf of Mexico from 23N86W through the Yucatan Channel and into the NW Caribbean. There are scattered showers/isolated thunderstorms S of 23N to inland over Cuba between 83W and the surface trough. A tropical wave will move across the Caribbean tonight. It will be across

the W Caribbean by Monday and Tuesday.

There is a slight chance of late evening, early morning, isolated rain showers and thunderstorms.

Fig 1 – Today's Wind Forecast

Fig 2 – Today's Graphicast

Fig 3 – Today's Tropical Surface Analysis

Fig 4 – Today's IR Water Vapor Image

Fig 5 – Today's Tropical Surface Forecast

The air temperatures will range from the low 80s (ºF) to the low 90s (ºF) or 26ºC to 32ºC.

Ocean water temperatures are 82 to 83ºF or 26 to 27ºC. Visibility is generally 20 to 80 feet.

The Tropical Weather Outlook

The next tropical wave will enter the E Caribbean Monday and across the Central Caribbean by Wednesday.

Tropical storm formation is not expected for the next 48 hours.

Fig 6 – Today's Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity

Fig 7 – Today's NOAA Tropical Surface Analysis 

Fig 8 – Today's W Caribbean Surface Analysis

The Tides: Moon and Sun

low tide 12:40 am LT              Moon Rise – 2:21 am LT

high tide 6:06 am LT               Moon Set – 3:41 pm LT

low tide 12:34 am LT              Sunrise – 5:24 am LT

high tide 7:23 pm LT               Sunset – 6:23 pm LT

Moon