General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just before or after this post!
Belize NMS:
Present Condition: Mostly clear, a few clouds in the southwest and around San Pedro this morning. Partly cloudy and windy in San Pedro. A relatively moist northeasterly airflow is setting in over our area.
Advisories: None.
24-hour forecast:
Sunny with a few cloudy spells today along with isolated showers. Skies will become cloudy at times tonight. A few showers will develop over northern areas this evening, and then a few showers and possible isolated thunderstorms will develop near coastal areas late tonight.
Winds: NE, 5-15 kts Sea State:
Choppy
Waves: 3-5 ft.
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 82
Outlook:
For Friday and Friday night is for some showers and isolated thunderstorms developing over most areas during the day and then mostly over southern areas during the night.
Sargassum Forecast from March 30 to April 13:
A few sargassum mats are likely to drift into the area during the coming weeks. San Pedro has a medium probability and a moderate 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).
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Marine Conditions:
Live Beach Cam at Blue Water Grill
The Caribbean Sea
A tight pressure gradient across the south-central Caribbean
between high pressure north of the Caribbean Sea and lower
pressures in northern Colombia is producing strong winds near the
coast of Colombia. Scatterometer passes over the area earlier this
morning showed 25 to 30 kt NE winds, and seas are estimated to be
10 to 13 ft in the area of strongest winds. The scatterometer also
showed a small area of strong E to SE winds south of Hispaniola,
and fresh to strong winds elsewhere across the central Caribbean.
A cold front in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the Yucatan Channel
tonight, then stall and dissipate across the NW Caribbean through
Sat. High pressure in the Atlantic will support fresh to strong
trade winds in the south-central Caribbean through Fri, with the
highest winds near the Colombia coast. Fresh trade winds will
prevail elsewhere across the east-central Caribbean. Wave heights
are forecast to build to the range of 8-11 ft in the Yucatan
Channel by tonight. Expect fresh to strong northeast winds in the
lee of Cuba and in the Windward passage by late Fri.
The cool air from the north has, in part, moved right down to Guatamala. It is diverting the Caribbean winds so from the NE, but a trickle still over Belize.
Looks as if today will still be mainly sunny, but with significant clouds in places, could be some changes this afternoon.
Temperatures in Belmopan : ( Coast usually cooler, hills even cooler ) Last Night 24°C 76°F 31°C 87°F Yesterday Rain 0 mm ( 0")
Present Condition: Partly cloudy. Clear in San Pedro. A relatively moist northeasterly airflow prevails over our area.
24hr Forecast: Sunny with a few cloudy spells this afternoon with showers being isolated, except for a few more over some central and southern areas. Skies will become cloudy at times tonight and tomorrow with a few showers and possible isolated thunderstorms developing mainly along coastal and southern areas late tonight and tomorrow morning.
Outlook: A few showers and possible isolated thunderstorms will continue over coastal and southern areas Friday afternoon and night, decreasing and becoming isolated by Saturday morning.
The cool air from the north is now forming a cloud line over northern Yucatan. And the clash between the NNE Caribbean winds have formed another cloud clashing area down the coast and moved over inland causing some areas of heavy rain in some places. There could still be more rain areas, some in the north, a lot over the mountains and possibly more in some southern areas later.
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