12:00 noon Weather Report
Date: 29th September, 2019
Forecasters: E. Francis/Hyacinthia Camille
Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair.
Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is partly cloudy.
Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport is 28 °C or 82 °F.
Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 32 °C or 90 °F.
Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the southeast at 14 mph or 22 km/h.
Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 8:00 am today:
At Hewanorra Airport: 0.3 mm. At GFL Charles Airport: 2.9 mm.
Total rainfall for the month of September so far:
At Hewanorra Airport: 108.1 mm. At GFL Charles Airport: 172.5 mm.
Sunset today: 5:55 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:53 am.
FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
Winds will be blowing from between the east and southeast near 14 mph
or 22 km/h, becoming lighter at times.
Weather: Generally fair skies.
MARINE FORECAST FOR SEAS IN A 25 MILE OR 40 KM RADIUS FROM SAINT LUCIA
Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 4:03 pm… Low at 10:09 pm.
Tides for Vieux Fort Bay: High at 5:10 pm… Low at 11:36 pm.
Seas: Locally rough with waves and northeasterly to easterly swells
6 to 8 feet or 1.8 to 2.4 metres.
SMALL CRAFT OPERATORS AND SEA BATHERS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE CAUTION DUE TO ROUGH SEAS.
FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES
Fair to partly cloudy skies, with a few scattered showers.
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
A relatively drier and more stable atmosphere will cause mostly fair weather conditions across the Eastern Caribbean during the forecast period.
A tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 mph or 24 km/h.
At 11:00 am today, the centre of Hurricane Lorenzo was located near latitude 25.9 North, longitude 44.4 West. Lorenzo is moving toward the north-northeast near 10 mph or 17 km/h.
Hurricane Lorenzo is expected to remain over the Central Atlantic Ocean, well east of the Lesser Antilles during the next five days.