6:00 am Weather Report
Date: 28th August, 2021
Forecaster: Vigil Saltibus
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair and hazy.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 28°C or 82°F.
Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 26°C or 79°F.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east-northeast at 20 mph or 31 km/h.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 2:00 am today:
At Hewanorra Airport: Nil.
Total rainfall for the month of August so far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 204.0 mm.
Sunset today: 6:17 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:52 am.
FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
Winds will be blowing from between the east-northeast and east near 20 mph or 31 km/h with occasional gusts.
Weather: Partly cloudy and hazy occasionally becoming cloudy with a few brief showers.
Persons with respiratory ailments and dust allergies are advised to exercise caution due to the presence of Saharan dust.
MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA
Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 7:35 am…Low at 1:00 pm.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: High at 8:42 am…Low at 2:27 pm.
Seas: Moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 metres.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Partly cloudy and hazy skies becoming cloudy at times with scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms over the southern Windward Islands. Elsewhere, fair to partly cloudy and hazy skies with a few showers.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
…NEW DEPRESSION FORMS OVER THE CENTRAL TROPICAL ATLANTIC…
At 5:00 am today, the center of newly formed Tropical Depression Ten (TD#10) was located near latitude 14.0 degrees north, longitude 49.9 degrees west or about 744 miles or 1197 kilometres east of Saint Lucia. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h) with higher gusts. The depression is moving toward the north-northwest near 7 mph or 11 km/h and this motion is forecast to continue this morning and then move northward by this afternoon. On the forecast track, the system is expected to remain over the open Atlantic well to the east of the Lesser Antilles. Some slight strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and the depression is expected to become a tropical storm later today.
Saharan dust will continue to cause a reduction in visibility and air quality across the Eastern Caribbean region, over the next couple of days.
Two tropical waves located over the central and eastern Tropical Atlantic are moving westward at about 17 mph or 28 km/h.