6:00 pm Weather Report
Date: 21st November, 2019
Forecaster: E. Francis
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is partly cloudy.
Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is fair.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 28° C or 82 °F.
Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 31 °C or 88 °F.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east at 3 mph or 6 km/h.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 2:00 pm today:
At Hewanorra Airport: trace. At GFL Charles Airport: 4.5 mm.
Total rainfall for the month of November so far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 93.8 mm. At GFL Charles Airport: 71.9 mm.
Sunrise tomorrow: 6:07 am. Sunset tomorrow: 5:32 pm.
FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
Winds will be blowing from between the east and northeast near
6 mph or 9 km/h, becoming lighter and variable or calm at times.
Weather: Partly cloudy skies, becoming cloudy at times with some scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms.
MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA
Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 11:55 pm…Low at 5:43 am.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: Low at 06:46 pm…High at 1:02 am.
Seas: Moderate with waves and northeasterly to easterly swells
4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 metres.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Partly cloudy skies, becoming cloudy at times with some scattered showers
and isolated thunderstorms.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Moisture and instability in the lower atmosphere over the Eastern Caribbean region will continue to cause some showery periods and isolated thunderstorms over the islands during the next 24 hours.
At 5:00 pm today, the centre of Tropical Storm Sebastien was located near latitude 23.8 North, longitude 59.7 West, or about 445 miles or 715 kilometres north northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Sebastien is moving toward the northeast near 9 mph or 15 km/h, and this motion is expected to continue with an increase in forward speed during the next few days. Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph or 95 km/h with higher gusts. Some strengthening is expected during the next 24 hours, and Sebastien could become a hurricane on Friday. A weakening trend is expected to begin by late Friday, and the system is likely to become an extratropical cyclone on Saturday. Sebastien is forecast to remain over the open Atlantic Ocean and is not expected to pose a direct threat to our region.
A tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 mph or 24 km/h.