Belize Weather Forecast: December 24, 2020

General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post!
Belize NMS: Present Condition: Mostly sunny, a few clouds in the south. Generally fair weather will prevail during the day, then a strong cold front will cross the country later tonight.
Advisories: *A small craft warning goes into effect tonight for rough seas.*
24-hour forecast: Mostly sunny skies today, shower activity will be isolated. Tonight and tomorrow morning skies will be cloudy, along with a few showers and isolated thunderstorms developing and this will be associated with the passage of a cold front.
Winds: E-SE, 5-15 kts
Sea State: Light Chop
Waves: 2-4 ft
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 82
Outlook: For Friday and Friday night is for cool and windy conditions to prevail with periods of light rain occurring mainly offshore.
Sargassum Forecast from December 22, 2020 to December 30, 2020: Latest satellite images continue to suggest little to no sargassum mats over the area and therefore no significant impacts are expected from sargassum during the next few days. San Pedro has a low probability and a minimal expected impact.
Tropical Weather Outlook: Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico during the next 48 hours. Click for more...

Marine Conditions:

The Caribbean Sea

A surface trough is along 24N68W in the Atlantic Ocean, across the eastern sections of the Dominican Republic, to 14N69W in the Caribbean Sea. Broken to overcast multi-layered clouds, and scattered showers, are north of 16N in the Caribbean Sea, between 67W and 72W.

The monsoon trough extends from northern Colombia near 11N73W, across Panama, beyond southern Costa Rica, and into the eastern Pacific Ocean. Isolated showers are south of 10N, west of 76W.

Isolated showers are noted elsewhere, in scattered to broken low- level clouds that are moving through the area.

Strong trade winds in the central Caribbean Sea will pulse to near gale-force early this morning near the coast of Colombia. A strong cold front in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the Yucatan Channel tonight, extend from central Cuba to the Gulf of Honduras Friday morning, and from eastern Cuba to SE Nicaragua Saturday morning, then stall and weaken on Sunday.

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