By Belize Live News Staff: First, the bad news, Belize: Monday is getting wet, and it plans to stay that way into the night. Now the news half the country actually wants: Tuesday, demonstration day, comes back down to isolated showers, and the placards should stay mostly dry.
The National Meteorological Service reports moist and unstable air running today’s show. The morning showers belong to the south, the coast, and the offshore waters, but they have travel plans, activity gradually increases and spreads around the whole country through the afternoon and into tonight, under skies going mostly cloudy. The umbrella earns its keep today.
The water gets the firm warning. A Small Craft Caution is up, gusty winds and locally rough seas near the heavy showers, with east to northeast winds at 10 to 20 knots and waves running 2 to 5 feet. The runs that can wait for midweek should wait.
The consolation prize rides in on the clouds: a cooler day all around. Inland tops out at just 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius) and drops to a genuinely pleasant 72 (22 Celsius) tonight. The coast reaches 87 degrees Fahrenheit (31 Celsius) with a low of 80 (27 Celsius), and the hills sit mild at 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 Celsius), easing to 68 (20 Celsius).
The tropics keep their silence, no cyclone formation expected over the region in the next 48 hours, which is exactly the kind of boring the season should stay.
And now the forecast the NTUCB, the police, and every would-be marcher has been waiting on. Tuesday runs cloudy at times with generally isolated showers or thunderstorms, the south collecting slightly more only after dark, hours after the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. demonstrations in Belmopan and Belize City wrap up. Translation: workable marching weather, with a small umbrella in the bag as cheap insurance and water bottles regardless, because August humidity takes no days off.
So let Monday rain itself out, Belize. Tuesday has a full docket, two cities, one big message, and a Belizean up for a regional media award the same day, and the sky, for its part, looks ready to cooperate.
As for the tides, today’s lows fall at 7:30 AM and 7:16 PM, with highs at 1:17 PM and 1:12 AM tomorrow. The sun rose at 5:36 AM and sets this evening at 6:17 PM. This forecast was prepared by forecaster Crystal Rosalez.
