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Belize Weather Forecast: October 5, 2017 General Situation: Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post! Belize NMS: Moist and unstable conditions will continue over the area. Advisories: None. 24-hour forecast: Mostly cloudy skies with some showers and a few thunderstorms over most areas. Winds: Northeast | 5-15 kts Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 85 General Outlook: Showers and thunderstorms will continue over most areas on Friday then mostly over northern and coastal areas Friday night as Tropical Depression 16 affects the country. Daily Tropical Weather Outlook: At 3 a.m., Tropical Depression 16 was centered near latitude 13.3N, longitude 83.3W or about 50 miles South of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Marine Conditions:   Winds Seas Waves Details Today NE 5-15 kts Choppy 3-4 ft SOME SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. Tonight N-NE 10-20 kts Moderate-Rough 4-7 ft SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. Tomorrow NW-W 15-25 kts Rough 5-8 ft SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. Outlook S-SW 15-25 kts Rough 6-9 ft SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOSTLY NORTH. 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 29° C 84° F 26° C 78° F Inland 31° C 88° F 23° C 73° F Hills 25° C 77° F 19° C 66° F TIDES: High: 9:42 AM Low: 3:46 PM High: 9:50 PM Low: 4:08 AM (Fri) Sunrise: 5:44 AM Moonrise: 5:55 PM Sunset: 5:38 PM Moonset: 6:29 AM (Fri) CLICK here and here for detailed local weather data

TS Nate was TD 16 until early today.

October 8, 2008. TD 16 hit Belize and caused widespread damage/devastation with flooding on mainland.

Anybody else having a deja-vu experience?

On Ambergris Caye this morning the wind is ENE at 7 and the sea is calm. We had an evening of rain, thunder and lighting but the sun is out now at 7:am. The expected high is 84 f.

From Belmopan...

The whole western Caribbean and the Pacific are in very active ITCZ swell-ups all over the place. Some of the swell-ups are due to ITCZ activity, others, such as those last night over Belize, due to winds and clouds in different directions at different heights, clashing with each other, which cause a lot of thunder and rain in many parts of Belize over night, I measured 55mm ( >2" ) in Belmopan. I may be right, I may be wrong, but it looked to me as if that bubble of north Atlantic air that came down over SE USA and crossed Belize yesterday and still blowing over us, may have caused one area of ITCZ activity to start rotating off Nicaragua. This, they have now named TS NATE although I can see much rotation, I do not see any high rotating winds, so how have they given this a name. ? Perhaps because you often get strong winds under raining ITCZ swell-ups. The rain in Belmopan last night and the night before both had high winds with them. However, when even a slow rotating air mass moves northwards, it can strengthen. So we must watch this, even if it is not actually a Tropical Storm, it could be very quickly.

Looks like much of today will be overcast from many chunky NE Caribbean winds and thicker high level SW cloud. So there will probably be many rain breakouts in any part of Belize today.

A lot of chunky Caribbean clouds coming down from the NE, and high clouds going up from the SW, clashing and causing many small pockets of rain, some heavy, more so in the south

Temperatures in Belmopan :
( Coast usually cooler, hills even cooler ) Tue max. 29°C 84°F Last night min. 25°C 76°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

For more information on Tropical Storm Nate, click here.