Scattered Showers as a Tropical Wave passes over the Bay Islands

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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Friday Aug 23, 2013

Again, today, skies will be partly sunny. Seas will be calm at 1 to 3 feet or less. Winds will be light and variable in direction, this morning, at 5 mph or less; increasing this afternoon and evening to 15 to 25 mph. In the afternoon, winds will be ENE to E in direction. Winds and seas will continue to increase in strength through Sunday. There is a chance of scattered rain showers and isolated thunderstorms, as a tropical wave passes over us.
The air temperatures will range from the mid 80s (ºF) to the low 90s (ºF) or 25ºC to 32ºC.
Ocean water temperatures are 82°F to 84ºF or 27ºC to 28ºC. Visibility is generally 20 to 80 feet.

Fig 1 - Today's Wind and Weather Forecast

Fig 2 - Today's Graphicast

Fig 3 - Today's Caribbean Satellite Image

Fig 4 - Today's Tropical Surface Analysis

Fig 5 - Today's NOAA Gulf of Mexico and W. Caribbean Surface Analysis 

Fig 6 - Today's Satellite Water Vapor Image

Fig 6a - Today's Enhanced Infrared Satellite Image

Fig 7 - Today's Tropical Surface Forecast

Fig 8 - Today's NOAA Tropical Atlantic Surface Analysis

Fig 9 - Today's Saharan Air Layer

Fig 9a - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer

Fig 10 - SSMI/SSMIS/TMI-derived Total Precipitable Water - North Atlantic

The Tropical Weather Outlook

A strong tropical wave along 83W, will move across the Western Caribbean today. In its wake...expect fresh to strong winds and building seas. A second tropical wave will move across the tropical N Atlantic late Friday and Saturday...entering the eastern Caribbean Sunday and the central Caribbean Monday.

There is a disturbed area of low pressure in the NE Gulf of Mexico. It has a 10% chance for further development. Elsewhere, there are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic at this time.

The SAL has decreased slightly in density. See Figs. 9 and 9a.

Fig 11 - Today's Tropical Weather Outlook

The Tides: Moon and Sun
low tide 4:14 am LT                    Moon Rise – 8:14 pm LT
high tide 10:41 am LT                  Moon Set – 7:52 am LT
low tide 4:24 pm LT                    Sunrise – 5:33 am LT
high tide 10:20 pm LT                 Sunset – 6:07 pm LT

Moon

Coral spawning

Coral spawning and other mass reproductive activity may occur for next nine (9) nights. Historically, in the Bay Islands, this activity peaks 3 to 6 days after the August full moon. Usually between the hours of 10pm to 2am. This year, the August full moon, for our location, occurred at 7:45pm, Tuesday, 130820.
Go to: http://www.researchstationcarmabi.org/images/stories/file/Mark%20PDFs/SPAWNING%20PREDICTIONS%202013.pdf for a list of organisms and their predicted spawning times. This list is for the S. Caribbean, but behavior here is similar.


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