There has been a lot of moisture around Belize over the past few days. Frequent showers occurred last night. At sunrise this morning I measured 41 mm. So far this month October 2012 rainfall is 7.9 inches. Seems to be making up for the lack of rain last month.

Belize is right now in a region of low and variable upper air steering currents and this is allowing for some isolated afternoon showers due to unstable moist conditions. The warm moist air is running up and over a weakening cold front in the Gulf of Mexico. This system should clear out by the weekend.

We appear to be under the influence of a classic OMEGA block. The moisture to the east has been transported to the north leaving Belize in dry but unstable air with very little upper air circulation. Have no idea how long this block is going continue. Solar activity has been very low recently with weak solar wind. Update: A small storm cell developed around Belmopan about 2PM and produced a heavy shower that lasted 1 hour. Measured a rainfall of 1.8 inches. The cell dissipated quickly thereafter.

There is a small Upper Level Low just off the coast of Belize which seems to be blocking the westward movement of the weather to the east of this cell. This is keeping the sky over Belize clear. Total rainfall for September was only 90mm which is much below normal. The soil moisture is abnormally low.

A High Pressure ridge is now producing clear sky across the Yucatan. The showers off to the east are slowly drifting westward and may simply dry up before reaching Belize. Will keep posted.

An upper level trough developed off the east coast of Yucatan which produced some light rain over Belize. Measured about 12mm last night. This disturbance should weaken during the day.

Weather still extremely dry. Only 45mm so far in September. No storms are developing in the Caribbean. Not a good situation for the farmers. The showers a few weeks ago did not bring an end to the dry, in fact it is becoming more dry.

The weather system mentioned previously has managed to push northward and is now producing some Thunder showers across Belize. In the past few hours the area of these showers has been expanding. This rain may be the ending of the dry period that we have been experiencing.

A High Pressure ridge running SW to NE is keeping clear sky over Belize. There has been only a trace of rain since my last report. The area of showers to the south is attempting to move northward but is being blocked by the ridge. Will see what it looks like in the morning.

The rainfall from the weather mentioned previously was only 9mm. The cell weakened rapidly after 9PM. Total rainfall for August 2012 was 263mm which is about Normal. We are now back in dry and windy weather with no sign of rain any time soon.