6:00 am Weather Report

Date: 13th December, 2023

Forecaster: Lemuel O’Shaughnessy

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair.

Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 26°C or 79°F.

Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 24°C or 75°F.

Relative humidity at Hewanorra Airport is 81%.

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east at 21 mph or 33 km/h.

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

At Hewanorra Airport: 7.3 mm.      

Total rainfall for the month of December so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 112.7 mm.

Sunset today: 5:37 pm.        Sunrise tomorrow: 6:18 am.                                  

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be blowing from between the northeast and east near 20 mph or 31 km/h.

Weather: Fair skies, becoming cloudy at times with a few showers.

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

Tides for Castries Harbour: Low at 08:47 am…High at 3:25 pm.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   Low at 10:14 am…High at 4:32 pm.  

Seas: Locally rough with waves 6 to 8 feet or 1.8 to 2.4 metres.

Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to locally rough seas.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Partly cloudy to cloudy skies, with some scattered showers over the southern Windward Islands and areas further south. Elsewhere, fair skies, becoming cloudy at times with widely scattered showers.

WEATHER SUMMARY

A shear line will continue to cause cloudy periods with some scattered showers over the extreme southern portion of the Lesser Antilles during the forecast period.

Patches of low-level clouds drifting along a moderate northeasterly to easterly wind flow, will cause widely scattered showers over the remainder of the region, during the next 24 hours.

A low-level trough located a few hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is drifting slowly westward.