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San Pedro Daily
Monday, August 8, 2005

WEATHER
August 8, 2005 (6:00 am)
SAN PEDRO WEATHER DISCUSSION by Winston Panton (with
excerpts from the Regional Hurricane Center)

TODAY’S FORECAST

Conditions over Belize and Northwest Caribbean will
produce isolated showers and thundershowers which will
be more frequent over
southern Belize.

San Pedro and Caye Caulker will experience for the
next 24 hrs: Partly cloudy
and warm with isolated
early morning and afternoon showers or thundershowers.
Winds will be eastsoutheasterly at 5 to 15 kts . and occasionally
gusting to 20 kts. Sea state will be light chop and choppy in the vicinity of the
heavier showers.

The outlook is for similar weather through Wednesday.

Western Caribbean:

MID/UPPER TROUGH IS OVER THE NORTHERN CARIBBEAN
EXTENDING FROM E CUBA NEAR 20N75W SW ACROSS JAMAICA TO
17N80W THEN NW TO THE NE TIP OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA
WITH CYCLONIC FLOW WITHIN 200 NM OF THE AXIS.

AT THE SURFACE...MODERATE TRADEWINDS DOMINATE THE
ENTIRE CARIBBEAN.

WESTERN CARIB WINDS REMAIN 20 TO 25 KT THANKS TO LOWER
PRESSURE OVER
PANAMA/COLOMBIA.

A SURFACE LOW INLAND OVER COLOMBIA AND THE ITC ARE
TOGETHER GENERATING
SCATTERED STRONG CONVECTION
S OF 10N FROM 75W-79W AND SCATTERED SHOWERS/ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS S OF 12N W OF 80W.

Eastern Caribbean:

TROPICAL WAVE IS ALONG
59W/60W S OF 19N MOVING
W 10 KT. IT IS EMBEDDED
WITHIN VERY DRY AIR WHILE MOVING ACROSS BARBADOS AND WILL CROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE LESSER ANTILLES TONIGHT.

SCATTERED MODERATE/ISOLATED STRONG CONVECTION IS
SPREADING OVER THE LEEWARD ISLANDS FROM DOMINICA TO
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA.

E CARIBBEAN IS DOMINATED BY
A MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
LEAVING THE AREA W OF 70W UNDER MODERATE/ STRONG
SUBSIDENCE AND DRY UPPER AIR.

TROPICAL STORM DEVELOPMENT

TROPICAL STORM IRENE IS CENTERED NEAR 21.5N 47.7W AT
08/0300 UTC MOVING WNW AT 10 KT. THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM
CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1005 MB. THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WIND SPEED IS 35 KT WITH
GUSTS TO 45 KT. http://www.hydromet.gov.bz/ gen_wx_ forecast.html