Belize Weather Forecast: March 27, 2018

The Caribbean Sea

Undersea volcano Kick'em Jenny, north of Grenada near 12.18N 61.38W, is in a state of unrest. The government of Grenada advises mariners to observe a 5 km or 3.1 nm exclusion zone around Kick'em Jenny. Please refer to the web page, www.nadma.gd, for additional information.

15-30 kt tradewinds are over the Caribbean Sea. A Gale is presently along the coast of N Colombia until 27/1200 UTC. Scattered showers are noted over the Windward Islands, inland over Hispaniola, and over N Colombia.

An upper level trough passes across the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, and the central Caribbean with axis along 72W.

High pressure in the western Atlantic Ocean will support fresh to locally strong trades across the south central Caribbean Sea during the next several days. The winds will pulse to minimal gale force along the NW coast of Colombia during the overnight hours through Thursday. Strong E winds will pulse in the Gulf of Honduras each night from tonight through Thursday night. Strong NE winds will pulse through the Windward Passage through Thursday night. An extensive set of large N to NE swells will propagate into the NE Caribbean passages from Wednesday through Thursday night, and then subside.

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