DATE ISSUED: Monday, September 02, 2019 @ 12:00 LST (16:00 UTC)
VALID UNTIL: Tuesday midday (12:00 LST) September 03, 2019
WEATHER:
This afternoon: Fair to partly cloudy and hazy, with local showers.
Tonight through Tuesday midday: Partly cloudy to cloudy and hazy, with isolated showers.
Forecast High: 32°C / 90°F Forecast Low: 27°C / 81°F
Sunset Today: 6:27 P.M. Sunrise Tomorrow: 5:58 A.M.
SURFACE WINDS:
This afternoon through Tuesday midday: Southeast to east-southeast with a light to gentle breeze of 05 to 12 miles per hour.
SYNOPSIS:
Low-level moisture and weak instability associated with surface trough approaching the local region, will cause some isolated showers with a low chance of isolated thunderstorms tonight. Otherwise, a weakened Atlantic high pressure system will maintain mostly light to gentle winds.
Seas are expected to remain slight through the next few days.
STATE OF THE SEA: Slight WAVES/SWELLS: 3 to 4 feet
SPECIAL FEATURE: At 1100 am, the center of catastrophic (Cat. 4) Hurricane Dorian was still causing cataclysmic conditions as it slowly moves across the northwestern Bahamas. Dorian poses no threat to St. Maarten.
Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with a low pressure system located about 2265 miles east-southeast of St Maarten continues to show signs of organization. A tropical depression is expected to form during the next day or so while the system moves generally northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. Locally heavy rainfall will be possible over the Cabo Verde Islands
today.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
This system currently poses no threat to St Maarten.
OUTLOOK through Wednesday midday: Fair to partly cloudy and slight haze with a brief local shower possible.
FORECASTER: Pierre
