Partly Sunny

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

Sunday, December 11, 2016
Skies will be partly sunny. Winds will be westerly in direction at 10 mph or less.  Seas will be moderate to calm at 1 ft. to 3ft. or less. The air temperatures will range from the high 70sºF to the mid to high 80s ºF or 26°C to 27ºC. Ocean water temperatures are 78°F to 80°F or 25ºC to 26ºC

Fig 1 - Today's Wind and Weather Forecast

Fig 1a - This Week's Wind and Weather Forecast

Fig 2 - 3 Day Cloud Cover-Rain Forecast Fig 3 - IR Satellite Water Vapor

The Tropical Weather Outlook
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:1. There are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic at this time. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th.
2. Gulf of Mexico - High pressure NE of the region will continue to slide E and develop a ridge axis over the NE Gulf Mon through Wed. This will allow for weak return flow to develop across the basin. Strong high pressure will force a cold front SE over the N and NE Gulf Wed night...then the E Gulf through Thu night. The high building behind the front will result in increasing northerly winds over much of the N and central Gulf Thu and Thu night.
3. Caribbean Sea - A stationary front across the Yucatan Channel will dissipate by tonight. A surface trough and broad low over the SW Caribbean will slowly approach Nicaragua through Mon night as Atlantic high pressure shifts E. The pressure gradient between the high and the trough will result in an expanding area of fresh to strong NE to E trades over the central and W Caribbean through Mon. The high will also bring an increase to NE to E trades across the tropical N Atlantic through Tue...diminishing Wed through Thu night.
3a. A stationary front passes through the Straits of Florida near 23N80W, across NW Cuba, across the Yucatan Channel, across the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula, to 19N92W in the SW part of the Gulf of Mexico. Convective precipitation: broken to overcast multilayered clouds and possible precipitation are to the north of the line that passes through 22N82W 19N88W. Upper level anticyclonic wind flow curves into the Caribbean Sea, from Colombia to Honduras. A 1009 mb low pressure center is near 10N79W. A surface trough is along 78W from 17N to the coast of Panama. Convective precipitation: scattered moderate to strong from 10N to 15N between 77W and SE Nicaragua along 85W, in the SW corner of the Caribbean Sea. Rainshowers are possible elsewhere from 19N southward from 74W westward. The 24-HOUR rainfall total in inches for the period ending at 11/0000 UTC...according to the PAN AMERICAN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLES...MIATPTPAN/SXCA01 KNHC...is 0.26 in Guadeloupe.

Fig 4 - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer

The Tides: Moon and Sun

low tide 12:14 pm LT                      Sunrise – 6:05 am LT>114° East
high tide  6:05 am LT                      Sunset – 5:17 pm LT < 246° NW
low tide  11:57 am LT                     Moon Rise – 3:26 pm LT<76° East
high tide 5:30 pm LT                       Moon Set – 3:25 am LT>282º West   
                                                                                                                            

Fig 5 - Moon

Day Light Hours:  11 hours, 12 minutes (-12s)