Saturday, March 4, 2017

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


Saturday, March 04, 2017
Skies will be partly sunny today. There is a very slight chance of scattered rain showers and isolated thunderstorms, especially during the early morning, late night hours. Winds will be moderate to strong and easterly in direction at 10 mph to 20 mph. Seas will be  moderate to rough at 2 ft. to 4 ft..  The air temperatures will range from the mid 70sºF to the mid 80s ºF or 22°C to 24ºC. Ocean water temperatures are 79°F to 81°F or 26ºC to 27ºC.






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 - A trough will meander across the far SW Gulf waters through the weekend with strong to near gale force NW flow S of the trough tonight. Fresh to strong E flow expected elsewhere tonight. Fresh to strong SE return flow will set up over the NW Gulf early Sat...with these conditions spreading E across the entire Gulf on Mon except near gale force E winds across the Straits of Florida. The next cold front will enter the NW Gulf on Tue and reach the central Gulf on Wed.
3. Caribbean Sea - Minimal gale force NE winds are expected during the overnight and early morning hours within 90 NM of the coast of Colombia through Wed night. Otherwise Atlantic high pressure will maintain fresh to strong trades while strong to near gale force northerly flow is expected across the NW waters behind a cold front this weekend.
3a. Upper level anticyclonic wind flow is moving across the area that is to the east of the line that runs from the central coast of Nicaragua to SE Cuba. Rain showers are possible across the Caribbean Sea, in areas of broken low level clouds mostly from 76W eastward, and from Jamaica southwestward to interior sections of Central America from Nicaragua to Guatemala and Belize. The 24-hour rainfall amounts, for the period ending at 04/0000 UTC...according to the PAN AMERICAN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLES...MIATPTPAN/SXCA01 KNHC...are: 0.15 in Guadeloupe and 0.04 in Curacao.

Fig 4 - Recent changes in the Saharan Air Layer
The Tides: Moon and Sun
high tide  02:37 am LT                 Sunrise – 6:02 am LT>96° East
low tide  8:20 am LT                    Sunset – 5:55 pm LT < 264° NW
high tide 1:56 pm LT                    Moon Rise – 10:51 am LT<74° East
low tide  8:55  pm LT                   Moon Set – 11:57 pm LT>288º West
                                                                                                                        
Fig 5 - Moon

Day Light Hours:  11 hours, 52 minutes, (+52s)

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