6:00 pm Weather Report
Date: 26th September, 2025
Forecaster: Venantius Descartes
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is partly cloudy.
Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is partly cloudy.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 29°C or 84°F.
Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 32°C or 90°F.
Relative humidity at Hewanorra Airport is 75%.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east at 10 mph or 17 km/h.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 2:00 pm today:
At Hewanorra Airport: nil At GFL Charles: trace
Total rainfall for the month of September so far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 66.4 mm At GFL Charles: 56.9 mm
Sunrise tomorrow: 5:53 am Sunset tomorrow: 5:56 pm
FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
Winds will be blowing from between the southeast and east-southeast near 12 mph or 19 km/h, becoming calm at times.
Weather: Fair skies, becoming cloudy at times with a few 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 present… Low at 12:50 am
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: High at 6:50 pm… Low at 2:17 am.
Seas: Slight to moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 metres.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Fair to occasionally cloudy skies, with a few showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
Unstable conditions together with light winds and high daytime temperatures, will cause occasional cloudiness with a few showers and possibly isolated thunderstorms over the Lesser Antilles, during the forecast period.
An area of low pressure in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles has been upgraded to Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine. At 5:00 PM today, the disturbance was centered near latitude 20.9 North, longitude 74.6 West. The system is moving toward the
northwest near 9 mph or 15 km/h. On the forecast track, the center of the system is expected to move across the central and northwestern Bahamas this weekend and approach the southeast U.S. coast early next week. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph or 55 km/h with higher gusts. Gradual strengthening is forecast, and the system is expected to become a tropical depression on Saturday and a tropical storm Saturday night or early Sunday.
…HUMBERTO RAPIDLY STRENGTHENS TO A MAJOR HURRICANE…
At 5:00 pm today, the eye of Hurricane Humberto was located near Latitude 22.3 degrees north…longitude 58.1 degrees west or about 631 miles or 1015 kilometres north-northeast of Saint Lucia. Humberto is moving toward the west-northwest near 5 mph or 7 km/h. Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 115 mph or 185 km/h with higher gusts. Humberto is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Additional strengthening is forecast over the next couple of days. On the forecast track, Humberto is not expected to affect the Lesser Antilles.
Two tropical waves located over the western and far eastern Tropical Atlantic, are moving westward near 10 mph or 17 km/h.