Roatan Weather Forecast for Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010

Roatan Weather Forecast

As presented by Radio Roatan, FM 101.1 or www.roatanradio.com

 CoCoView is at 16.3°N Latitude x 86.5°W Longitude

In the

NW Caribbean Sea

Sunday Dec. 26, 2010

Today, skies will be mostly cloudy. Winds will be W to NW at 5 to 20 mph. The seas will be 1 to 4 feet.

Our weather continues to be dominated by cold fronts. Early this morning the cold front was to the north of us.

It was on a line from the western tip of Cuba to northern Belize and moving SE.

Fig 1 - Cold Front Position Early Sunday_101226

There will be showers in advance of , as well as, along and behind the cold front..

It will pass over us today and reach Panama by Monday.

Skies will gradually clear behind the front as it slowly dissipates on Monday and Tuesday.

By mid-week, winds will begin to resume their normal easterly flow.

The air temperatures will be in the low 70s (F) to the low 80s or 24 to 25 (C). With a wind chill factor, air temperatures will feel like it is in the mid 60s.

At depth, ocean water temperatures are about 79F or 25C .

The tides:                                                  Moon and Sun

high tide 1:05 am LT                                     Moon Rise –10:51 pm LT

low tide 6:56 am LT                                                 Moon Set – 10:25 am LT

high tide 12:46 pm LT                                   Sunrise – 6:12 am LT

low tide 7:41 pm LT                                                  Sunset - 5:23 pm LT