Date: 26th August, 2023
Forecaster: Vigil Saltibus/Shemma Joseph
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is cloudy.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 26°C or 79°F.
Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 25°C or 77°F.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is calm.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 2:00 am today:
At Hewanorra Airport: trace.
Total rainfall for the month of August so far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 143.2 mm.
Sunset today: 6:19 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:51 am.
FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
Winds will be blowing from between the southeast and south near 7 mph or 11 km/h, becoming lighter and variable or calm at times.
Weather: Partly cloudy, becoming cloudy at times with a few light showers.
MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA
Tides for Castries Harbour: Low at 6:01 am…High at 1:08 pm.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: Low at 7:28 am…High at 2:15 pm.
Seas: Slight with waves 2 to 4 feet or 0.6 to 1.2 metres.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Partly cloudy to cloudy with a few showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms over the Leeward and northern Windward Islands. Elsewhere, fair to partly cloudy with a few light showers.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Light and variable winds will continue across the Lesser Antilles during the next couple of days.
Moisture and instability associated with an area of low pressure located just east of the Lesser Antilles, will continue to cause cloudiness with a few showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms over the Leeward and northern Windward Islands during the next 24 hours.
A broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands is moving towards the northwest. This system has a medium chance of tropical cyclone formation during the next seven days.
Two tropical waves are located over the central and eastern tropical Atlantic, respectively. They are both moving westward near 8 mph or 13 km/h.
At 5:00 am today, the centre of Tropical Storm Franklin was located near latitude 22.8 North, Longitude 65.8 west or about 350 miles or 565 kilometres east-northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Franklin is moving toward the east-northeast near 6 mph or 9 km/h and does not pose a threat to the Lesser Antilles.