6 am weather report

By SLUMET

FORECAST FOR SAINT LUCIA VALID FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS

Winds will be blowing the east near 21 mph or 33 km/h, with occasional gusts.

Weather: Generally fair and breezy occasionally becoming cloudy with a few brief showers.

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

Tides for Castries Harbour: High at 10:50 pm…Low at 2:25 am.

Tides for Vieux Fort Bay:   High at 11:57 pm…Low at 3:52 am.

Seas: Locally rough with waves and easterly to northeasterly swells 6 to 9 feet or 1.8 to 2.9 metres.

Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise extreme caution due to brisk winds and locally rough seas.

FORECAST FOR THE LESSER ANTILLES

Over the northern Leeward Islands and extreme southern Lesser Antilles it will be partly cloudy to cloudy and breezy with scattered showers. Elsewhere, fair to partly cloudy and breezy with widely scattered showers.

WEATHER SUMMARY

The Atlantic High Pressure System will maintain generally fair conditions over most of the region and will continue to generate moderate to brisk easterly winds and locally rough seas around the Lesser Antilles during the next 24 hours.

Patches of low level clouds moving along the wind flow will cause some cloudiness with scattered showers mainly over the extreme southern and northern portions of the region during the forecast period.