Belize Weather Forecast: February 25, 2020

General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post!
Belize NMS: Present Condition: Mostly clear skies except for along the western border. Those clouds should burn off early. Mainly fair, warm and dry conditions to prevail during the next 24 hours. Then a gradual increase in moisture and unstable conditions to set in tomorrow, as a cold front approaches.
Advisories: None.
24-hour forecast: Mostly sunny skies today and clear to partly cloudy tonight with little to no rainfall expected.
Winds: East-Southeast | 5-15 kts
Sea State: Choppy-Moderate
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 81
Outlook: Variably cloudy skies with increasing showers during Wednesday. Then a few showers or periods of rain will affect mostly inland and northern areas at first, spreading to most places Wednesday night.
Tropical Weather Outlook: Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico within the next 48 hours. Click for more...

Marine Conditions:

The Caribbean Sea

A stationary front starts in the Atlantic Ocean at 21N58W, and it continues to 19N63W. The front becomes dissipating stationary at 19N63W, and it continues to 17N69W, just off the SE corner of the Dominican Republic. Precipitation: Broken to overcast multilayered clouds and possible rainshowers are in the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean, from 14N to 22N between 55W and 83W.

A surface trough is along 19N59W 16N62W 11N65W, from the Atlantic Ocean into the SE corner of the Caribbean Sea.220 nm to the south of Jamaica, to the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Precipitation: broken to overcast multilayered clouds and possible rainshowers are from 17N to 20N between 55W and 60W in the Atlantic Ocean, and from 17N southward between 60W and 70W in the Caribbean Sea.

24-hour rainfall totals that are listed for the period that ended at 25/0000 UTC, according to the PAN AMERICAN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLES, MIATPTPAN/SXCA01 KNHC, are: 0.08 in Guadeloupe.

The gradient that is associated with high pressure in the western Atlantic Ocean will allow for strong northeast to east winds to pulse off the coast of Colombian through Saturday night. The gradient also will bring fresh to strong northeast to east winds to the lee of Cuba and Hispaniola, and in the Windward Passage through early Tuesday. A cold front will move in the NW Caribbean Sea on Wednesday evening. The front will reach from east central Cuba to the Gulf of Honduras by Thursday night; and then begin to weaken as it reaches from the Windward Passage to the Honduras/Nicaragua border by Friday afternoon; and from the central Dominican Republic to NW Haiti to 15N78W and to the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border by late Saturday. Fresh to strong northerly winds will follow behind this front mainly in the NW Caribbean Sea through early Saturday, and in the far western Caribbean Sea from 11N to 19N on Saturday.

For more information, check the Daily Tropical Weather Outlook.

Climate Prediction Center’s Central America Hazards Outlook

Belize National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO)

Ambergris Caye:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/bz/san-pedro

Philip S W Goldson International Airport:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/bz/belize/MZBZ?cm_ven=localwx_today

Belmopan:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/bz/belmopan/17.26%2C-88.78

Caye Caulker:
http://cayecaulkerweather.com/weatherdata/caye-caulker-belize-live-weather-data.htm