Christmass and New Year vertually always suck and Thanksgiving is usually great...
I think it's that yummy Turkey (I see those hat feathers) that has got you~ and just because Sanata Claus don't like ya'....
Scuba 1456:
I have heard that they would likley ferry us around to the otherside of the island if its rough. My wife also loves to snorkle and swim. is she going to have to be content with diving or is the snokleing going to be ok too!
AKR will certainly do that, they might even bus you around and meet you over there. Not every North Side operation will/can do that.
Snorkeling from AKR is marginal. Swimming would be ill advised especially if the weather kicks up.
Scuba 1456:
Also, I know just because its raining doesn't automaticlly mean bad diving. some of my best cold water dives have been in abolute torents in the seattle area
Maybe in the Caribbean it will have greater impact than you are used to in Seattle. You are in a near shore niche environment where fish and critters come in close to feed and make little fish. A few degrees of water temperature and change in salinity can bugger things up for quite a time.
Here is the conundrum of Roatan, well,
here's one of a list anyway....
After a heavy rain, the clarity of the North Side (AKR and points East) returns more quickly because of the wind and wave/current action which is more prevalent in that area, and the fact that there is substantially less sedimentation off of that side... because there has been so much storm impact over the years (the soft soil and disturbed earth has been blown South over the ridge line for millenia)
The fish and critters have still been given a good shake-up, and it will take them time to return, but after a period of calm weather, they will fairly quickly.
RTBDiver:
....Things get fuzzy after the last few years but...
This is likely an effect of Salva Vida Beer and Nitrogen Lesions on the brain. That, and the general calming, soporific effect of the Bay Islands. Works for me.
Some of the most interesting diving occurs in March through September in the Bay Islands. Lots of critters doing a lot more of their annual thing.