Roatan Weather Forecast for Friday, Sept. 17, 2010

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For Friday, Sept 17, 2010

 

Expect most sunny skies with high level cloudiness. The seas are moderate with waves of 1' to 4' in height. Winds will remain light at 5 to 15 mph. They will be mostly ESE. 
Because of a weak, ill-defined pressure pattern over the Caribbean Sea, expect these conditions to continue through this week-end.
TS Karl is now a major hurricane (See Figs 1 & 2) with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. It will make landfall later this morning, just north of Veracruz, Mexico.  Its influence on our weather is declining.

Elsewhere in the tropics:

Hurricanes Igor and Julia remain in the open waters of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Neither system poses a threat to the Bay Islands.
The ECMWF computer model develops a new tropical depression a few hundred miles off the coast of Africa 2 - 4 days from now. The GFS model is suggesting the eastern Caribbean could see a tropical depression 6 - 7 days from now.

The air temperatures will be in the mid to high 80s (F) or 27 - 29 (C).

Ocean water temperatures are about 85F to 87F or 29C to 30C.

The tides:                                                                                Moon and Sun

high tide | 5:07 am LT                                                            Moon Rise - 2:08 pm LT
low tide | 11:45 am LT                                                           Moon Set - 12:58 am LT
high tide |5:59 pm LT                                                             Sunrise - 5:36 am LT
low tide | 12:04 am LT (Sat)                                                   Sunset - 5:47 pm LT

Fig 1 - Hurricane Karl_100917_1215am LT

Fig 2 - Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook - 100917