6:00 pm Weather Report 21st August, 2026

6:00 pm Weather Report
Date: 21st August, 2026
Forecaster
: Vigil Saltibus

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is cloudy with light haze.

Present weather at GFL Charles airport is cloudy with light haze.

Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 29°C or 84°F.

Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 31°C or 88°F

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east at 17 mph or 28 km/h.

Relative humidity at Hewanorra Airport is 79%.

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

At Hewanorra Airport: Trace      At GFL Charles airport: Trace

Total rainfall for the month of August so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 80.4 mm    At GFL Charles airport: 85.2 mm

Sunrise tomorrow: 5:51 am        Sunset tomorrow: 6:22 pm        

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be blowing from the east near 18 mph or 30 km/h with occasional gusts.

Weather: Fair and breezy, occasionally becoming cloudy with a few showers.

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

Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 10:26 pm…Low at 6:25 am

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   High at 11:33 pm…Low at 7:52 am

Seas: Slight to moderate with waves 3 to 6 feet or 0.9 to 1.8 metres.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered light to moderate showers and isolated thunderstorms over the far southern Windward Islands and areas further south. Elsewhere, fair and breezy, occasionally becoming cloudy with a few showers.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Patches of low-level clouds drifting along a moderate to brisk easterly wind flow, will cause a few showers across the Lesser Antilles during the forecast period.

A tropical wave located a few hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is moving westward near 17 mph or 28km/h.  This wave will produce a few cloudy periods with showers across the islands from late Saturday into Sunday. No significant convection has been noted with this wave.

Two other tropical waves located over the central and far eastern Tropical Atlantic are moving westward near 20 mph or 31 km/h and 15 mph or 24 km/h, respectively.