6:00 am Weather Report 12th Sept’24

6:00 am Weather Report

Date: 12th September, 2024

Forecaster: Vigil Saltibus

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is partly cloudy.

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.

Relative humidity at Hewanorra Airport is 91%.

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east at 8 mph or 13 km/h.

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

At Hewanorra Airport: 2.5 mm    

Total rainfall for the month of September thus far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 87.0 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 and southeast near 15 mph or 24 km/h, becoming lighter at times.

Weather: Partly cloudy skies becoming cloudy at times with some 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: Low at present… High at 12:27 pm.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   Low at 6:43 am… High at 01:34 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 a chance of isolated thunderstorms.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

The atmosphere over the region is sufficiently moist and unstable to produce some scattered showers and possibly isolated thunderstorms over the Lesser Antilles, during the next 24 hours.

Two areas of low pressure, located a few hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands and further east, continues to drift slowly west-northwestward. These systems have a low chance of tropical cyclone development during the next seven days.

Tropical Depression Seven is located over the central Tropical Atlantic is moving toward the west-northwest near 17 mph or 28 km/h. The depression could become a tropical storm later today, Thursday and pose no threat to our region at this time.