6:00 pm Weather Report

Forecaster: Webster Gajadhar

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is cloudy.

Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is cloudy.

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

Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 30°C or 86°F.

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east-southeast at 13 mph or 20 km/h.

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

At Hewanorra Airport: 93.0 mm.        At GFL Charles Airport: 3.2 mm.

Total rainfall for the month of June so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 108.8 mm.      At GFL Charles Airport: 26.6 mm.

Sunrise tomorrow: 5:35 am.                        Sunset tomorrow: 6:32 pm.

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be blowing from between the east and east-southeast near 17 mph or 28 km/h.

Weather: Partly cloudy to occasionally cloudy with some scattered showers at first, becoming fair to partly cloudy and hazy with a few brief showers tonight into tomorrow. 

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

Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 9:54 pm…Low at 3:36 am.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:  High at 11:01 pm…Low at 5:03 am.

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

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Partly cloudy to occasionally cloudy with some scattered showers over the northern and central Windward Islands at first, becoming fair to partly cloudy and hazy with a few showers tonight into tomorrow. Elsewhere, fair to partly cloudy and hazy with a few brief showers.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Moisture and instability associated with a tropical wave, will continue to produce some scattered showers over the central portion of the Lesser Antilles this evening. Conditions are expected to gradually improve during the night.

Three other tropical waves located over the central, eastern and far eastern Tropical Atlantic are all moving westward near 15 mph or 24 km/h.

Tropical cyclone formation not expected over the Tropical Atlantic during the next five days.