Belize Weather Forecast: August 22, 2014 General Situation: Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post! Belize NMS: Conditions will continue mainly fair the next couple of days. Advisories: None. 24-hour forecast: Mostly sunny today and partly cloudy tonight. Showers or thunderstorms will be isolated, except for a few over the south tonight. Winds: East 5-15 knots. Marine Forecast: Today: Winds: East 5-15 kts.; seas: Choppy.; waves: 2-4 ft.; isolated showers or thunderstorms. Tomorrow: Winds: NE'ly 5-15 kts.; seas: Light chop - choppy.; waves: 1-3 ft.; isolated showers or thunderstorms. Marine Outlook: Saturday night :- winds NE'ly 5-15 kts.; seas: Choppy.; waves: 2-4 ft.; a few showers and isolated thunderstorms mostly south. Sea Surface Temp (°F): 81-83 General Outlook: Some cloudy spells with a few showers and isolated thunderstorms mostly inland Sat. then mostly over the south Sat. night. Tropical Weather Outlook: An area of low pressure approaching the Leeward Islands is poorly defined. Environmental conditions are likely to become more conducive for some development during the next day or so and a tropical depression could still form. Click for our daily Tropical Weather Report Current Conditions and weather history for Ambergris Caye / San Pedro Wind & weather forecast for Ambergris Caye / San Pedro: Great information for sailors... Caribbean winds site: An animated map of Caribbean wind and weather. Click for a green circle or position, showing the exact location longitude and latitude, temp and wind speed. Current Caye Caulker Weather Information Belize Hydrological & Flooding Information Belize National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO)   High Low Coastal 32° C 90° F 26° C 78° F Inland 35° C 95° F 23° C 73° F Hills 28° C 82° F 20° C 68° F TIDES: High - 7:49 AM Low - 2:44 PM High - 9:14 PM Low - 2:14 AM (SAT.) Sunrise - 5:37 AM Moonrise - 3:59 AM (SAT.) Sunset - 6:14 PM Moonset - 4:14 PM CLICK here and here for detailed weather data

On Ambergris Caye this morning we have calm sea, clear sky and the expected high is 90 with a breeze from the East at 8 mph.

WOW!!! What a great picture.

BUT - have you had any measurable rain?

From Belmopan... 10:30 BZT

Last night there were two wet air masses moving in different directions over Belize.. . .This could easily result in some rain in any part of Belize, over night.. . . . .Well the result has left many scattered rain areas all over Belize and still more to come in later.

When you have two conflicting air masses, that can easily result in Vertical movements, that will frequently result in Lightning and Thunder, which will usually cause rain.

That Low Atlantic 96L is still not visibly showing rotation, but is still moving WNW and no doubt giving them rain as it passes. . ..Most Low pressure centres do drop rain.

However, over in the Pacific, not all that far from us, there are 3 Hurricanes. . ..The northern one, Lowell, is rotating very fast, the western one Karina, is not rotating very fast and is just developing, but will be clashing with Lowell. . . .. But the Eatern one Marie, is huge. . . . It is spreading from 90°W to 110°W that is over 1,000 miles wide. .. .It is some of its outer bands that are effecting Belize.. . .. . .I notice they are calling them all Tropical Storms. . .. But that I do not believe, the northern one Lowell must surely be classified as a Hurricane due to its rotating speed. . .. .The Eastern one, Marie, must also surely be classified as a Hurricane, due to its shear size and intense storm centre. . . . .I have been questioning their means of identification hurricanes for some time now, size must count, you can't, in my opinion, just go by wind speed at its centre.

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