Date: 12th September, 2024
Forecaster: Maclean Jn Baptiste
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is cloudy with showers nearby.
Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is partly cloudy.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 31°C or 88°F.
Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 26°C or 79°F.
Relative humidity at Hewanorra Airport is 81%.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the southeast at 15 mph or 24 km/h.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 8:00 am today:
At Hewanorra Airport: 0.5 mm. At GFL Charles Airport: 0.6 mm.
Total rainfall for the month of September thus far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 87.5 mm. At GFL Charles Airport: 68.8 mm.
Sunset today: 6:07 pm Sunrise tomorrow: 5:52 am
FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
Winds will be blowing from between the east-southeast and southeast near 14 mph or 22 km/h, becoming lighter at times.
Weather: Partly cloudy skies, becoming cloudy at times with a few scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms.
MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA
Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 12:27 pm…Low at 3:11 pm.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: High at 01:34 pm…Low at 4:38 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 at times with widely scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
The atmosphere over our region remains sufficiently moist and unstable to cause some scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms over the islands, during the next 24 hours.
Two areas of low pressure located a few hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands and over the western Tropical Atlantic, continues to drift slowly west-northwestward and westward, respectively. These systems have a low chance of tropical cyclone development during the next seven days.
At 11:00 am today, Tropical Depression Seven was located near latitude 17.8 north, longitude 34.6 west. The depression is moving toward the west-northwest near 17 mph or 28 km/h. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph or 55 km/h, with higher gusts. The depression could become a tropical storm later today or tonight and pose no threat to our region at this time.