DATE ISSUED: Friday, September 06, 2019 @ 12:00 LST (16:00 UTC)
VALID UNTIL: Saturday midday (12:00 LST) September 07, 2019
WEATHER:
This afternoon through Saturday midday: Partly cloudy, becoming cloudy at times with isolated showers.
Forecast High: 32°C / 90°F Forecast Low: 27°C / 81°F
Sunset Today: 6:23 P.M. Sunrise Tomorrow: 5:59 A.M.
SURFACE WINDS: This afternoon through Saturday midday: Northeast to south with a light to gentle breeze of 04 to 10 miles per hour, becoming light and variable at times.
SYNOPSIS:
A surge of moisture associated with a passing tropical wave will account for cloudy periods and isolated showers during this forecast period. Meanwhile, the Atlantic high pressure system will continue to generate mostly light winds.
Seas are expected to peak near 4 feet through the next few days.
STATE OF THE SEA: Slight WAVES/SWELLS: up to 4 feet
SPECIAL FEATURE: Tropical Storm Gabrielle continues to move away, remaining no threat to St Maarten.
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms located several hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands are associated with a tropical wave. Development, if any, of this system will be slow to occur while it moves slowly northwestward.
A low pressure system located near the southern Cabo Verde Islands is producing a small area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms, mainly to the west of the center. Little if any development of this disturbance is expected for the next couple of days, but environmental conditions are expected to become for a tropical depression to form early next week while the system moves westward across the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Formation chance through the next two to five days is 20 to 70 percent.
The Meteorological Department of St. Maarten will continue to monitor the progress of these systems and update the public accordingly.
OUTLOOK through Sunday midday: Partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated showers possible.
FORECASTER: Connor
