6 AM WEATHER REPORT

Date: 18th November, 2021

Forecaster: Maclean Jn Baptiste

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is partly cloudy with showers nearby.

Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 27°C or 81°F.

Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 25°C or 77°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: 3.2 mm         

Total rainfall for the month of November so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 35.8 mm.       

Sunset today: 5:32 pm        Sunrise tomorrow: 6:06 am

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

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

Weather: Fair to occasionally cloudy skies, 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 8:23 am… High at 2:41 pm

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   Low at 9:50 am… High at 3:48 pm

Seas: Moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 metres.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with some widely scattered showers.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

The Atlantic High-Pressure System will continue to generate moderate easterly winds across the Eastern Caribbean, during the forecast period.

Low-level clouds drifting along this wind flow, will cause some widely scattered showers over the region during the next 24 hours.

A surface trough located over the central Tropical Atlantic is drifting slowly westward.  

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