6:00 pm Weather Report 18th November, 2019

Forecaster: Lemuel O’Shaughnessy

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair.

Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is fair.

Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport 28° C or 82 °F.

Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 31 °C or 88 °F.

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is calm.

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

At Hewanorra Airport: 1.4 mm     at GFL Charles Airport:  0.4 mm.

Total rainfall for the month of November so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 93.8 mm    at GFL Charles Airport: 59.3 mm.

Sunrise tomorrow: 6:05 am             Sunset tomorrow: 5:32 pm.           

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be light and variable becoming calm at times.

Weather: Fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with some scattered showers which may be moderate to heavy in some locations.

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

Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 7:35 pm…Low at 2:54 am.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   High at 8:42 pm…Low at 4:21 am.

Seas: Slight to moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 metres.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Fair skies, becoming cloudy at times with some scattered showers and a slight chance of isolated thunderstorms.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Moisture and instability in the lower atmosphere around the Eastern Caribbean region will cause some showery periods over the islands during the next 24 hours.

A broad area of low pressure located about 250 miles or 402 kilometers east northeast of the northern Leeward Islands is drifting northwestward to northward over the open Atlantic. Some gradual development of this system is expected during the next few days and it may become a tropical or subtropical depression. Conditions are expected to be less conducive for its development by midweek.This system is not expected to pose a direct threat to our region.

A tropical wave located over the eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 09 mph or 15 km/h.