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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lindsay Tarbell (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 3:05 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

My boyfriend and I are coming to Bonaire for the first time this next week and noticed the weather report looks a little bleak - rain the whole time we're there. Does anyone know how accurate this is, and what the report really means to a new visitor. For example, is are the clouds a good indicator of a miserable, overcast day, or are they typically more heat induced - kind of like in FL? Also with the rain...is it pretty standard to maybe have a good morning and a rainy afternoon and then it clears up and the cycle repeats? Any help deciphering the forecast would be greatly appreciated...and cross your fingers for warm, sunny weather next week!!!
Thanks!!!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Freddie {Moderator} (Moderator - Post #720) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 3:26 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Welcome Linda to Bonaire Talk,if you go to this LINK I think it says it all.. you might wake up to a wet sidewalk but mostly the clouds are gone by 9am.. If there is a shower it is like FL where it comes and then goes within minutes usually. I can just about guarantee you will have sunny days.. Enjoy your trip, and please post a trip report here when you return..In the mean time please take some time to read our posting policies that can be found HERE
Again welcome to Bonaire Talk

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Antony Bond (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #480) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 3:41 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Lindsay.

Before I travelled to Bonaire for the first time, the UK met office forecast rain for every day. It didn't rain once in 14 days!

Most forecasts are generalised for the whole Antillies, not just Bonaire. While I was sheltering from the midday heat in City Cafe, I decided to use the Internet. Out of idle curiosity I checked the BBC weather. According to them it was raining!

My opinion of meteorology is pretty low. Even I know what the weather is currently doing which seems to be more than the BBC Met Office do.

Don't bother packing a brolly!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ann Phelan - www.bonairebliss.com (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3674) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 5:36 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

We have not had rain in 6 weeks..maybe a little drizzle. It is very hot because we have no wind. The sun is shining brightly.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By *****Patrick with sharks on Bonaire***** (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3855) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 7:21 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Not as brightly as you Ann.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sparty (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #230) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 10:43 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

We just returned from 5 weeks on Bonaire and it rained numerous times, sometimes quite hard but usually less than a half hour at a time. Seemed like more clouds this year as well.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #796) on Friday, April 3, 2009 - 7:15 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Where do you stay on Bonaire Sparty ?
Here in Belnem there have been in the last weeks some very short showers - not even enough for the plants in the garden - around 5am and there was one very short shower one afternoon ......

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Randy P (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #853) on Friday, April 3, 2009 - 10:31 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

I'm thinking it would be a rare event to have a rain storm that lasts all day, but it can happen. Since the island is only a few miles wide, it would take a very large, very slow moving weather condition like a full blown tropical storm etc. to cause a total 24 hour rain out.

I confess that as a devout scuba diver, it would be rather difficult for me to complain about getting wet - lol - but it would not take up much space to pack a rain poncho either.


(Message edited by chicagorandy on April 3, 2009)

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sparty (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #231) on Friday, April 3, 2009 - 12:42 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

We stayed near the Marina/Eden Beach area. One night we left our car widows down and had soaked seats in the AM and numerous large puddles in the street.

In addition to the rain, we had a day or two where we decided not to dive due to the dark cloudy conditions. Getting wet is not the issue, we just enjoy the diving much more when the sun is out and vis is brighter. If you are there for five weeks, diving every day is not as critical as it would be for a week or two stay.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lorraine Meadows (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1265) on Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 2:35 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

We've have been on Bonaire the end of May begining of June,(begining of the "rainy season") more or less, for quite some time now and it had rain very seldom, never all day.
But it does come down heavy, then disappears and drys up.
Many years it never rained and we stayed 3wks or more, at a time and others, a few times here or there, sometimes on one part of the island not not others for a short time. You could see the rain clouds up north on the higher end of the island.
Someone once told me that there is nothing in the south for the clouds to cling onto so they just keep moving. Makes sense.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lizard0924 (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #323) on Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 10:41 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

We just got back yesterday and I didn't experience rain once during our entire stay. I saw what looked like rain clouds building far north some days, but we never felt a drop.

It was sunny every day and I came home with a great tan. Ann is totally right, it was HOT, HOT, HOT....very little wind. I loved it!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lindsay Tarbell (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Friday, April 17, 2009 - 2:26 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks for all of the feedback! We had a great time and the temp was PERFECT the whole week we were there!!! Not a single drop of rain. Definitely a location worth revisiting!!! :-)

 


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