6:00 pm Weather Report
Date: 22nd November, 2019
Forecaster: Emmanuel Descartes
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair.
Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is fair.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 27 C or 81 °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: nil. At GFL Charles Airport: nil.
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 light and variable becoming calm at times.
Weather: Generally fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with a few scattered
Showers.
MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA
Tides for Castries Harbour: Low at 6:26 pm… High at 1:06 am.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: Low at 7:53 pm… High at 2:13 am.
Seas: Slight to Moderate with waves and northeasterly to easterly swells
3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 metres.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Partly cloudy skies, becoming cloudy at times with some scattered showers
and a chance of isolated thunderstorms mainly over the Leeward Islands.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Moisture and instability associated with a low level trough and frontal system
will continue to cause some showery periods and possibly 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 26.2 North, longitude 53.7 West, or about 815 miles or 1315 kilometres
northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Sebastien is moving toward
the east-northeast near 16 mph or 26 km/h. Maximum sustained winds are near
60 mph or 95 km/h with higher gusts. Gradual weakening is expected and
Sebastien is forecast to dissipate by early next week.
A weak tropical wave located several hundred miles east of the Eastern Caribbean is moving westward near 15 mph or 24 km/h. This system is expected to bring some
showers and possibly thunderstorms to the islands from late Saturday into Sunday.
Another tropical wave located over the eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 12 mph or 19 km/h.