6:00 PM WEATHER REPORT

6:00 PM Weather Report

Date: 29th October, 2019

Forecasters: Emmanuel Descartes    

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is partly cloudy.

Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is fair.

Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport 29 °C or 84 °F.

Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 32 °C or 90 °F.

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the northeast at 8 mph or 17 km/h.

Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 2:00 pm today:

At Hewanorra Airport: 0.5 mm       At GFL Charles Airport: Trace.

Total rainfall for the month of October so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 69.9 mm      At GFL Charles Airport: 127.7 mm.

Sunrise tomorrow: 5:58 am        Sunset tomorrow: 5:36 pm.     

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be blowing from the east near 15 mph or 24 km/h.

Weather: Fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with a few scattered showers mainly during the night and the early morning.

MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA

Tides for Castries Harbour: low at 10:49 pm… High at 05:29 am.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   low at 12:16 pm… High at 06:36 am.

Seas: Locally rough with waves and northerly to northeasterly swells 5 to 7 feet

      or 1.5 to 2.1 metres.

Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to rough seas.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Some cloudy periods with showers and possibly isolated thunderstorms across the northern Windward Islands and the extreme southern Windward Islands. Elsewhere, fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with a few scattered showers.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Lingering moisture and instability over the northern Windward and extreme southern Windward Islands will cause some scattered showers over those islands.

Two tropical wave located over central tropical Atlantic are moving westward near 15 mph or 24 km/h.