Caught Between Northers Today!

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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Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014

Today, skies will be mostly cloudy with a chance of heavy, intermittent rain. Winds will be strong and NW in direction at 15 mph to 20 mph Seas will be 1 to 3 feet on the south or lee side of the Bay Islands and considerably higher on the north side.
This morning, satellite imagery shows that a pair of strong cold fronts straddles the Bay Islands and Cuba. (See Fig. 6.1 below ) They will continue to slowly move south today...and reach from the Windward Passage to the border of Honduras and into Nicaragua later today with second, reinforcing front merging with the first one. There, they will become stationary and begin to dissipate on Friday and Saturday. There are gale force winds behind the second front.
The next cold front will move into the Gulf of Mexico on Friday.
The air temperatures will range from the high 70s (ºF) to the mid 80s (ºF) or 24ºC to 26ºC.
With wind chill, it will feel like the mid 60s F, especially when exiting the water.
Ocean water temperatures are 79°F to 80°F or 25ºC to 26ºC. Visibility is 5 to 80 ft.

The SAL (Saharan Air Layer) has changed in area and in density. See Figs. 9 and 9a below.

Fig 1 - Today's Wind and Weather Forecast

Fig 1a - Today's NWS Interactive Wind Speed Map

Fig 1b - Today's 26ºC/78.8ºF Isotherm

Fig 1c - Today's 20ºC/68ºF Isotherm

Fig 1d _ Today's Ocean Heat Content

Fig 2 - Today's Graphicast

Fig 3 - Today's Caribbean Satellite Image

Fig 3a - Today's Caribbean Rainbow Loop

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 6.1 - Today's Satellite Water Vapor Image - Location

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 Tides: Moon and Sun
low tide 2:33 am LT                       Moon Rise – 6:17 pm LT
high tide 9:09 am LT                      Moon Set – 6:27 am LT
low tide 3:06 am LT                      Sunrise – 6:18 am LT
high tide 8:51 pm LT                     Sunset – 5:36 pm LT

Moon