It is sunny with moderate winds and seas

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

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Friday Oct 11, 2013

Today, skies will be partly sunny. Seas will be choppy at 2 to 4 feet. Winds will be moderate and E in direction, this morning, at 10 to 12 mph; increasing to 15 to 20 mph , from the ENE, this afternoon and evening.
There is a very slight chance of scattered rain showers and isolated thunderstorms.
The air temperatures will range from the mid 80s (ºF) to the low 90s (ºF) or 25ºC to 32ºC.
Ocean water temperatures are 84°F to 86ºF or 28ºC to 29ºC. 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 tropical wave is along 78W/79W to the south of 18N moving westward 10 knots. It will move across the Western Caribbean today and inland Sat. Another tropical wave will move into the eastern tropical N Atlantic today and into the eastern Caribbean Saturday.
Showers and thunderstorms associated with Invest 98L, in the eastern tropical Atlantic several hundred miles SW of the Cape Verde Islands have changed very little in the last 24 hours. This morning, it was located at 11.3N x 34.7W or about 3400 miles E (96°) of Roatan.. It is moving WNW at 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds are 30 mph. This system has a medium chance...40 percent...of becoming a tropical depression during the next 2 to 5 days.
The SAL, has changed very little in the last 24 hours. See Figs. 9 and 9a.

Fig 11 - Today's Tropical Weather Outlook

Fig 11a - Invest 98L's Distance and Location from Roatan

Fig 11b - Invest 98L - Rainbow Tropical Floater

Fig 11c - Computer Model Forecast Tracks Invest 98L

Fig 11d - Google Earth Invest 98L Forecast Track_sphaghetti format

The Tides: Moon and Sun
high tide 1:54 am LT                        Moon Rise – 11:52 am LT
low tide 8:36 am LT                         Moon Set – 11:33 pm LT
high tide 3:29 pm LT                        Sunrise – 5:39 am LT
low tide 9:29 pm LT                         Sunset – 5:30 pm LT

Moon

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