Belize Weather Forecast: May 16, 2018

General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post!
Belize NMS: Mainly fair and warm conditions will prevail.
Advisories: None.
24-hour forecast: Mostly sunny today and partly cloudy tonight. Showers or thunderstorms will be isolated except for a few more over the maya mountains this afternoon and over the south tonight.
Winds: East-Southeast | 5-15 kts
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 83
General Outlook: A few showers will develop mostly over northern areas Thursday morning and inland Thursday afternoon becoming generally isolated Thursday night.
Daily Tropical Weather Outlook: Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico during the next 48 hours. Click for more...

Marine Conditions:

The Caribbean Sea

Upper level cyclonic wind flow is moving across the area that is between 80W and 90W, including across Central America. Scattered to numerous strong rainshowers are in western Nicaragua, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean from 12N to 16N between 90W and 94W, mostly in the coastal waters from El Salvador toward the Isthmus of Tehuantepec of southern Mexico. Isolated moderate to locally strong rainshowers cover parts of northern Guatemala and the SE Yucatan Peninsula.

The monsoon trough is along 08N74W in northern Colombia, through Panama and southern Costa Rica, beyond 09N85W, into the eastern Pacific Ocean. isolated moderate rainshowers are in inland sections and the coastal waters of Panama.

Atlantic high pressure will maintain fresh to locally strong trade winds across the Caribbean Sea, south of 18N east of 80W, through the upcoming weekend, with highest seas of 9 feet off the northwest coast of Colombia. Large northeast swell will reach the tropical waters northeast of the Virgin Islands on Friday, and reach the northeast Atlantic Ocean Passages on Saturday, with seas then subsiding from the east on Sunday.

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For more information, check the Daily Tropical Weather Outlook.