6:00 pm Weather Report
Date: 19th October, 2024
Forecaster: Lucious Frederick
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair.
Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is partly cloudy.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 30°C or 86°F.
Today’s maximum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 33°C or 91°F.
Relative humidity at Hewanorra Airport is 82%.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the east at 17 mph or 28 km/h.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 2:00 pm today:
At Hewanorra Airport: 9.2 mm At GFL Charles Airport: 0.2 mm
Total rainfall for the month of October thus far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 46.6 mm At GFL Charles Airport: 70.2 mm
Sunrise tomorrow: 5:55 am Sunset tomorrow: 5:41 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.
Weather: Partly cloudy skies, becoming cloudy at times with some light to moderate 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 11:26 pm… High at 6:07 am.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: Low at 12:53 am… High at 7:14 am.
Seas: Slight to moderate with waves 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 metres.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Partly cloudy to cloudy at times with widely scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms.
A weak surface trough will produce occasional cloudiness with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms across parts of the region during the next 24 hours.
A tropical wave located over the eastern Tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 mph or 24 km/h.
For information:
The low-pressure system located north of the region had developed into the fifteenth named storm of the season. At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the center of Hurricane Oscar was located near latitude 21.4 North, longitude 71.1 West. Oscar is moving toward the west near 10 mph (17 km/h). Oscar is a very small hurricane, with hurricane-force winds only extending outward up to 5 miles (10 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles (75 km). This system does not pose a threat to the Eastern Caribbean region.