Felix

[parrotheaddiver]

ok let's make Felix an official thread...still a tropical storm but probably turn into a hurricane...look out The Bay Islands...and Belize....

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/144539.shtml?5day#contents

 

[Doc]

ok let's make Felix an official thread...

Did you get DandyDon's okay? I mean, that is his job, after all.

If the storm does stay on this relative track, the Bay Islands can hope for the storm to lose a lot of power if it strays anywhere over the Northern portion of the mainland of Honduras. This area is fairly flat and swampy, and although it tends to "lift" storm tracks by pushing them North, it also saps their strength. Here is that shown by the NOAA: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/204524.shtml?hwind120#contents

As of Saturday evening, they give the Bay Islands only a 5% chance of having huricane winds.

Until then, another Salva Vida, por favor! How's the weather in... San Salvador? File the flight plan and gas up the Citation, Captain! Might be time to get outta Dodge.

 

[parrotheaddiver]

Did you get DandyDon's okay? I mean, that is his job, after all.

1. I think it was posted in the wrong forum (Coz)...but it is so far out at this point who really knows

2. No

 

[Bay Island Diver]

I´m watching this one closely

 

[parrotheaddiver]

Will, looks like a cat 2 this am...hopefully it will deflect off the NE corner of Honduras

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/085023.shtml?5day#contents

http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurricane/Active.aspx?storm=3&type=track

a couple of views

 

[Praxus]

Either I'm looking at this map wrong, or Roatan is in danger of a hit or near miss from a cat 4 hurricane:

 

[Doc]

Live Web Cams on Roatan.

These are positioned on the South side which is always the least affected (but still no picnic).

The Dock Cam looks NNW towards the ridgeline of 500' that humps over... diectly in the line of sight of AKR.

The Beach Cam looks South with FIBR to the right and Cayos Cochinos wold be 22 miles distant on the left of the image. Sometimes you can see the mountains on the mainland (at 30 miles), the mountains themselves are 40 miles further inland.

The cams are turned off at dusk and may not be operational with any predictability in the coming storm. Check the dates posted on the images for verification.

http://www.cocoviewresort.com/webcams.html

 

[parrotheaddiver]

looks like a perfect day to dive at CoCo View clear skies....

felix is now up to a cat 4....I know all our friends there are watching it closely:11:

 

[Bay Island Diver]

Yep, its got everyone hopping! Diving cancelled from tomorrow, we may get a morning dive in. THe main reason for this is not because it is rough but because everyone is going to be fighting for boat space in the safe havens! The real weather won´t hit us until Wednesday morning. I plan to board up, have got in drinking water and bought a generator and 40 gallons of fuel.

I still hope diving as normal will recommmence before the week is out.

Will

 

[DocIndyDiver]

Cat 5 now!