Roatan Rag: Roatan Weather Forecast for Saturday October 29, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Roatan Weather Forecast for Saturday October 29, 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

CoCoView is at 16.4°N Latitude x 86.4°W Longitude

In the

NW Caribbean Sea

Saturday October 29, 2011

Today, it will be sunny, with mid to high level clouds. Seas will be 1 to 3 feet in height. Winds, will be mostly NW to WNW at 15 to 20 mph .

This morning, a cold front from near Apalachicola, Florida, to the central Bay of Campeche, is moving SE and will reach from the Florida Keys to the northern Yucatan by Sunday morning. Then it will become quasi-stationary Sunday afternoon through early Monday. The front will then push through the Yucatan channel and into NW Caribbean Sea, as high pressure builds north of the area. It will drift south through mid-week. Expect strong NW winds behind the front and rain and thunderstorms along the frontal boundary.

The air temperatures will be in the high 70s (ºF) to the low to mid 80s or 22ºC to 25ºC.

Ocean water temperatures are about 82ºF to 88ºF or 28ºC to 31ºC . Visibility is generally 20 to 60 feet With the wind chill factor, it will feel like the 60s, especially to divers exiting the water.

Fig 1 – Today's Wind Forecast

Fig 2 – Today's Graphicast

The Tropical Weather Outlook

The remnant low of tropical depression Rina, currently is just off the southwest tip of western Cuba. It has become nearly stationary.

A broad area of low pressure, remains over the central western Caribbean Sea. It is drifting slowly northwestward. This system, has a very low chance...near 0 percent...of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours. Another low pressure system in the eastern Atlantic, about 900 miles WNW of the Cape Verde Islands has a 10 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours.