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Belize Weather Forecast: April 17, 2017 General Situation: Belize NMS: A light to moderate easterly airflow continues to dominate our weather. A slight increase in moisture and instability expected through mid-week. Advisories: None. 24-hour forecast: Sunny with a few cloudy spells today and partly cloudy tonight. Showers will be isolated, except for a few along southern coastal areas. Winds: East 5-15 knots. Marine Forecast: Today: Winds: East 5-15 kt.; seas: Choppy.; waves: 3-4 ft.; a few showers south. Tomorrow: Winds: East 5-15 kt.; seas: Choppy.; waves: 3-4 ft.; a few showers over the south. Marine Outlook: Tuesday night: Winds: East 5-15 kt.; seas: Choppy.; waves: 3-5 ft.; a few showers south, along with chance of isolated thunderstorms. Sea Surface Temp (°F): 82 General Outlook: For Tuesday and Tuesday night is for some cloudy spells with a few showers mostly inland and in the south, along with the chance of isolated thunderstorms developing. Tropical Weather Outlook: THe 2016 hurricane season ended Nov. 30. Tropical cyclone formation is not expected anytime soon. Click for our daily Tropical Weather Report Climate Prediction Center's Central America Hazards Outlook Current Conditions and weather history for Ambergris Caye / San Pedro Current Caye Caulker Weather Information Belize National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) Windfinder forecast for Ambergris Caye & San Pedro   High Low Coastal 30° C 86° F 26° C 78° F Inland 33° C 92° F 20° C 68° F Hills 26° C 78° F 18° C 64° F TIDES: Low: 6:44 AM High: 1:32 PM Low: 9:15 PM High: 2:58 AM (TUES.) Sunrise: 5:35 AM Moonset: 10:20 AM Sunset: 6:09 PM Moonrise: 11:36 PM CLICK here and here for detailed local weather data

On Ambergris Caye this morning the breeze is ESE at 9 mph. Our expected high is 86 f. The sea is calm. Our mornings have been starting with clouds like this but quickly give way to a sunny day.

From Belmopan...

The large rotating air mass is still out there in the Atlantic, now far to the east of the States, but it is still drawing cool air down from the north, into the easterly Caribbean air. So we are continuing to be getting cool air over Belize. The high level clouds are from the west, two areas, one coming from Mexico. The other from the Pacific to the west of Panama. There is now some very significant ITCZ activity near Panama and in the Caribbean to the east of Panama. Typically it is about a month or so, before this works its way up northwards and gets to our area.

Looks like today will be mainly sunny, with clouds, and there is some rain in parts of Belize.

Temperatures in Belmopan :
( Coast usually cooler, hills even cooler ) Sun max. 29°C 84°F Last night min. 22°C 71°F

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:
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IBELIZED2#history

There is continuing clashing of the high level west pacific cloud with the easterly Caribbean winds, resulting in significant rain just developing in many parts of Belize, it is not exactly coming in, but mainly just developing over land.

Please note, the time shown on the various Satellite and Rain Radar pictures is GMT
So subtract 6 hours from that time to get Belize time. The below Rain picture is therefore 13:01 or 1pm

Lotta thunder from skies in the west.... sprinkles but no real rain yet.

We got the ground well wetted. I sat out and took it all in until I got cold. I love this weather.