Belize Weather Forecast: January 24, 2021

General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post!
Belize NMS: Present Condition: Partly cloudy this morning, clearing early. Generally fair weather prevails.
Advisories: None.
24-hour forecast: Partly cloudy skies with little or no rainfall.
Winds: E-SE, 5-15 kt
Sea State: Light chop
Waves: 2-4 ft.
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 81
Outlook: For Monday and Monday night is for fair, warm and mostly dry conditions.
Sargassum Forecast from January 21 to January 27: Impacts from sargassum are expected to continue minimal to moderate this week with the chance of a few mats drifting ashore. San Pedro has a medium probability and a moderate expected impact.
Tropical Weather Outlook: There are no organized tropical features across the Atlantic basin at this time. Updates will resume at the beginning of the 2021 hurricane season (June 1). Click for more...

Marine Conditions:

The Caribbean Sea

Pulsing winds to gale force are expected during the overnight and early morning hours near the coast of Colombia. Elsewhere, mainly moderate to fresh trades will prevail, pulsing to fresh to strong over the Gulf of Honduras Tue and Tue night with seas building to 5-7 ft. Fresh to locally strong winds are also expected in the Windward passage tonight, and south of Dominican Republic tonight through Mon night. Shallow moisture embedded in the trade winds flow is seen across the basin producing isolated to scattered passing showers. Patches of low level moisture with possible light showers, carried by the trade winds, are affecting most of Honduras and north-central Nicaragua.

Northerly swell will impact the NE Caribbean passages on Tue with additional pulses of N swell reaching the same area Thu night into Fri. Northerly swell will also propagate into the Tropical North Atlantic waters Mon night through Thu night.

A cold front currently located along 26N W of 60W with continue to move southward, approaching the Atlantic waters of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola by Mon night. This front could bring an increase in the likelihood of rain over these islands on Tue. Another cold front is forecast to reach the Yucatan Channel Thu night followed by fresh to strong northerly winds.

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