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Monday, January 17, 2011

RTB Weather Forecast Monday, Jan. 17, 2011

Roatan Weather Forecast
As presented by Radio Roatan, FM 101.1 or www.roatanradio.com
and
CoCoView Resort, www.cocoviewresort.com, 800-282-8932

Monday Jan. 17, 2011

Today, skies will be partly cloudy. Winds will be less than 10 mph. The seas will be 1 to 4 feet. Winds will continue to be light and variable. By late today or tomorrow, they will resume their normal, diurnal, easterly air flow.
Beginning today, a series of relatively weak cold fronts are forecast to enter the Gulf of Mexico. They will reinforce each other and make their way into the NW Caribbean Sea, by no later than Wednesday or Thursday. These cold fronts, will continue to dominate our weather, as we enter the second half of our rainy season.

Fig 1 - Tropical Atlantic, early am_110117

Fig 1 – Forecast Wind Speed & Direction_110117

The air temperatures will be in the low 70s (F) to the low 80s or 24 to 25 (C). Wind chill, may make it feel like the mid to high 60s, as water at depth, will feel warmer then the air at the surface.
At depth, ocean water temperatures are about 76F to77F or 25C or lower.
The tides:                                                  Moon and Sun
low tide 12:41 am LT                                   Moon Rise –3:34 am LT
high tide 7:26 am LT                                              Moon Set – 4:06 pm LT
low tide 1:08 pm LT                                    Sunrise – 6:18 am LT
high tide 6:38 pm LT                                              Sunset - 5:36 pm LT



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