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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

RTB Weather Forecast for Wednesday, Jan. 05, 2011

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
Wednesday Jan. 05, 2011

Today, skies will be mostly sunny. Winds will be diurnal and SE to NE at 5 to 10 mph. The seas will be 1 to 4 feet. Wind and seas continue to be light. Scattered isolated, showers are possible later today.


Fig 1 – Forecast Wind Speed & Direction_110105

A weak cold front has moved into the Gulf of Mexico. This system will slowly continue south. 

Fig 2 - Water vapor_110105 am

On Friday, it will be reinforced by another cold front. It is forecast to reach here by Saturday and begin to dissipate on Sunday. Still another cold front will push into the waters off the Texas coast on Sunday.
Our weather continues to be dominated by these frontal systems.


Fig 3 - Caribbean Graphicast_110105


The air temperatures will be in the low 70s (F) to the low 80s or 24 to 25 (C).

At depth, ocean water temperatures are about 77F or 25C .
The tides:                                                  Moon and Sun
low tide 2:59aam LT                                     Moon Rise –7:10 am LT
high tide 9:51 am LT                                                Moon Set – 6:51 pm LT
low tide 3:50 pm LT                                     Sunrise – 6:16 am LT
high tide 9:23 pm LT                                                Sunset - 5:28 pm LT



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