12:00 noon Weather Report 17th November, 2019

Forecaster: Lemuel O’Shaughnessy

Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is fair.

Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is partly cloudy.

Present temperature at Hewanorra Airport 30° C or 86 °F.

Last night’s minimum temperature at Hewanorra Airport was 22 °C or 72 °F.

Wind at Hewanorra Airport is blowing from the southeast at 12 mph or 19 km/h.

Rainfall in the 24-hour period that ended at 8:00 am today:

At Hewanorra Airport: 1.0 mm.    At GFL Charles Airport: nil.

Total rainfall for the month of November so far:

At Hewanorra Airport: 92.4 mm.   At GFL Charles Airport: 58.7 mm.

Sunset today: 5:32 pm      Sunrise tomorrow: 6:05 am.           

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be blowing from between the east-northeast and south near 10 mph or 17 km/h, becoming calm at times.

Weather: Fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with some scattered showers

and chance of isolated thunderstorms during the afternoon.

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

Tides for Castries Harbour: Low at present… High at 6:30 pm.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   Low at 1:21 pm… High at 7:37 pm.

Seas: Slight to moderate with waves and swells 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 metres.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Fair skies, occasionally becoming cloudy with widely scattered showers and a chance of isolated thunderstorms.

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

Moisture and instability in the lower atmosphere over the Eastern Caribbean region will cause a few showery periods and possibly isolated thunderstorms over the islands during the next 24 hours.

A large area of disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms located over the central Atlantic Ocean, several hundred miles east of the northern Leeward Islands is associated with an upper-level low and a surface trough. This system has a low chance of development during the next few days as it moves northwestward, and later expected to move northward over the open Atlantic.