Belize Weather Forecast: August 28, 2016 General Situation: Belize NMS: Warm and mostly dry conditions will continue today. Light winds will continue. Somewhat unstable conditions will continue through to mid-week. Advisories: None. 24-hour forecast: Mostly sunny today and partly cloudy tonight. Showers or thunderstorms will be isolated, with the chance for a few more over the interior this afternoon and evening, and over some coastal areas late tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow with the chance of a few more developing along coastal areas tomorrow morning, then inland tomorrow afternoon. Winds: Variable at 5-10 knots. Marine Forecast: Today: Winds: NW becmg NE 5-10 kts; seas: Light chop; waves: 1-2 ft.; isolated showers or isolated thunderstorms. Tomorrow: Winds: Variable 5-10 kts; seas: Light chop; waves: 1-2 ft.; isolated showers or thunderstorms. Marine Outlook: (Monday night) Winds: NE becmg nw 5-10 kts; seas: Light chop; waves: 1-2 ft.; with a few showers or thunderstorms late. Sea Surface Temp (°F): 81 General Outlook: Cloudy at times with a few showers and thunderstorms mainly inland monday afternoon and evening, then over some coastal areas monday night. Tropical Weather Outlook: At 3:00am Hurricane Gaston was located over the Atlantic near latitude 30.1N, longitude 54.6W, or about 620 miles east of Bermuda. Gaston was moving northwestward at 6 mph with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. Also an area of low pressure located near the north coast of central Cuba has become a bit more organized. This system has a medium chance of becoming a tropical depression during the next couple of days as it moves into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Click for our daily Tropical Weather Report Weekly AgroMet Weather Update and Outlook & NOAA Outlook for Central America Current Conditions and weather history for Ambergris Caye / San Pedro Current Caye Caulker Weather Information Belize Hydrological & Flooding Information Belize National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) Windfinder forecast for Ambergris Caye & San Pedro   High Low Coastal 33° C 91° F 26° C 78° F Inland 36° C 96° F 23° C 73° F Hills 28° C 82° F 19° C 66° F TIDES: High - 6:30 AM Low - 1:37 PM High - 8:27 PM Low - 1:03 AM (MON) Sunrise - 5:38 AM Moonset - 3:25 PM Sunset - 6:19 PM Moonrise - 3:07 AM (MON) CLICK here and here for detailed local weather data

On Ambergris Caye this morning the sea is flat calm and wind nil. The expected high is 91 and looks to be a hot day ahead.

From Belmopan...

That INVEST 99L brought another wave of cloud towards Honduras last night, but only resulting a small amount of rain showers. Last night, and continuing this morning, there is a strong SW surface Tiger wind over Belize. I can't, this morning, see any indications of an easterly Caribbean wind on any Satellite images, at least at present, but it will pick up by this afternoon, replacing the SW Tiger wind as the sun gets hotter. The high cloud from the Honduras swell-ups is circulating to the E then SW away, but the main high cloud in the area is going to the west. There is very little high cloud over Belize. I have been able to see a few white puffy clouds showing the Caribbean easterly wind is there above the surface tiger wind.

Looks like today is going to be mainly sunny with white clouds building this morning, only a slight chance of the odd rain shower, mainly in the south.

There are 3 identified storms, HURRICANE GASTON in the NE of this picture, is now Cat.2 and they expect it to turn to the NE and Europe. TD EIGHT they also expect to turn NE soon, but will have some impact on the US east coast. Now INVEST 99L is still going towards southern Florida and they also expect that to turn NE and hit central Florida later. But there is a 4th rotating mass of cloud, this has formed from much outpouring from H Gaston, but is rotating on its own. It is not clear if this could actually form into another storm.

Temperatures in Belmopan:
Today is probably going to be similar, to yesterday : Sat, max. 34°C 94°F Last night min. 27°C 80°F ( Coast usually cooler, hills even cooler )

Ambergris Caye:
https://www.wunderground.com/q/locid:BHXX0104;loctype:1
Belmopan:
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=MD1029#history
Caye Caulker: not working currently
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IBELIZED2#history

Please explain Tiger Wind

from my friend in Belmopan....

The "Tiger wind" is a surface wind we can feel, that comes of the Mountains, from the SW usually starting in the late evening and usually stopped by early morning as the Caribbean wind takes over.

It is, as I say, a surface wind and there can easily be Caribbean or other winds at just a 1000 feet or higher above it in a different direction.

It used to be a common expression amongst Belize Town fishermen 50 years ago, but I have not found anyone who remembers that expression, so I have been rekindling it.