Belize Weather Forecast: March 7, 2020

General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post!
Belize NMS: Present Condition: Cloudy. A weak cold front influencing our weather will support cool and windy conditions over the area.
Advisories: *A small craft caution is in effect for gusty winds and occasionally rough seas.*
24-hour forecast: Variably cloudy and cool with a few showers or periods of light rain over some coastal and offshore areas.
Winds: North-Northwest | 10-20 kts | Gusty
Sea State: Moderate-Rough
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 81
Outlook: For Sunday and Sunday night similar pattern to prevail.
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

Gale-force winds are being forecast, in about 48 hours, from 16N to 20N between 73W and 77W, including in the Windward Passage.

A cold front is passing across Andros Island in the NW Bahamas, across NW Cuba near 23N81W, across La Isla de la Juventud of Cuba, to 21N85W. The front becomes stationary from 21N85W to 20N86W, and to western Honduras. Precipitation: broken to overcast multilayered clouds and isolated moderate rainshowers are to the NW of the line that runs from 80W in Cuba, to 19N85W, to 86W in Honduras.

Rainshowers are possible, elsewhere, in clusters of broken low level clouds, in tradewind flow, across the area.

24-hour rainfall totals that are listed for the period that ended at 07/0000 UTC, according to the PAN AMERICAN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLES, MIATPTPAN/SXCA01 KNHC, are: 0.14 in Guadeloupe.

The current cold front will move SE, and reach from E Cuba to the central Gulf of Honduras on Saturday afternoon; from central Hispaniola to the Honduras-Nicaragua border on Sunday morning; then stall from the Virgin Islands into the central Caribbean Sea on Monday. Strong to brief gale-force NE winds and large seas will develop behind the front across the Caribbean Sea and through the Atlantic Ocean Passages through late Monday, including in the lee of Cuba, and off the southern coast of Hispaniola on Sunday night. Strong winds in the south central Caribbean Sea will pulse to minimal gale-force each night near the coast of Colombia from Sunday through Tuesday.

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