Belize Weather Forecast: April 28, 2022

General Situation:
Ambergris Caye: Conditions this morning by Elbert just after this post!
Belize NMS: Present Condition: Light clouds cover much of the country early this morning. Mostly clear in San Pedro. Moist and unstable easterly airflow prevailing. Conditions will become less moist and less unstable tonight and tomorrow.
Advisories: None.
24-hour forecast: Cloudy at times today with a few showers, periods of light rain and isolated thunderstorms mainly over the coast this morning, then mostly inland this afternoon. Cloudy spells tonight with a few showers or thunderstorms over southern and some coastal areas.
Winds: E, 5-15 kts
Sea State: Light Chop
Waves: 2-4 ft
Sea Surface Temperature (°f): 84
Outlook: (Fri & Fri night) Partly cloudy with generally isolated showers, and the chance for an isolated thunderstorm developing inland or in the south.
Sargassum Forecast from April 26 to May 4: The heavy influx of sargassum will continue for the next few days as satellite imagery shows several more sargassum mats heading towards the country. San Pedro has a high probability with a moderate impact.
Tropical Weather Outlook: The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season has ended, warnings will resume on May 15, 2022. Click for more of the tropical weather outlook...

Marine Conditions:

Phoenix Resort in San Pedro

The Caribbean Sea

Abundant moisture and divergence aloft is producing scattered moderate to isolated strong convection over the SW Caribbean Sea, mainly south of 13N and west of 75W. Similar convection is noted along and offshore portions of the coast of Venezuela. Fresh NE winds are observed in the Windward Passage, with fresh to strong offshore of the southern Dominican Republic, and in the south- central Caribbean offshore of northern Colombia. Moderate to locally fresh trades prevail elsewhere, except gentle to moderate in the NW Caribbean, and light to gentle just offshore of northern Panama and Costa Rica. Seas are 6 to 8 ft in the south- central Caribbean, with seas around 8 ft in NE swell filtering through the Mona and Anegada Passages. Seas of 2 to 4 ft prevail in the NW Caribbean, with 3 to 6 ft elsewhere.

For the forecast, high pressure positioned north of the Caribbean Sea will continue to sustain pulsing fresh to locally strong NE to E winds across the Windward Passage and south of Hispaniola during the next few days. Similar conditions will occur this morning near the northern coast of Colombia. Otherwise, moderate to locally fresh easterly winds will prevail, except gentle winds in the SW Caribbean. Periodic showers and thunderstorms are forecast in the SW Caribbean today. Northerly swell will propagate through Atlantic waters and Caribbean passages through the end of the week. A surge of wind will accompany a trough that will move through the eastern to central Caribbean this weekend into early next week.

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://sanpedrowx.com/
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:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/bz/caye-caulker-village