- Updates from the Islands -

- - St.Lucia - -

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 04:15:09 +0000

• From: "sheldon sylvester" <sheld43 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:15:28 +0000

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:37:38 +0000

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 23:37:10 +0000

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 11:29:19 +0000

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:51:58 +0000

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:32:42 +0000

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:22:37 +0000

We had alot of rain in St. Lucia yesterday. 49.9mm of rain were recorded at 
the Hewanorra Intl. Airport in the south along with wind gust to about 
33mph. But more rain fell in the north of the island where i am located. It 
rained continuously from about 1pm until 7pm in the north and outside is 
totally soaked this morning. According to satellite imagery this morning, 
the tropical wave which affected us yesterday seems to be developing a 
surface low in the vicinity of 14n 63w and it is forecast to become a 
tropical cyclone in a couple days. Turning our attention to the east, there 
are two very potent looking tropical waves in the central and eastern 
atlantic. One near 38w and the other near 20w and they both have potential 
for development over then next few days with conditions being highly 
favourable for tropical storm formation. It seems as if this year's 
hurricane season is going to be what i like to consider "a classic hurricane 
season" like the 1995,1996 and the 1998 hurricane seasons with most of the 
cyclones forming off tropical waves coming off West Africa and not like last 
year's season, 2002, of which most of the activity was of a sub-tropical 
origin. (That's not a good sign for us here in the islands)

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• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:21:43 +0000

The weather is still fairly quiet here at 11:00pm. Just a little breezy at 
times and no rain at present. I'm looking at the possibility of some very 
gusty winds and heavy rain occuring withing the next few hours as the 
satellite pics show that the western edge of the system is just off the 
eastern coast of St. Lucia already and there are some very strong 
thunderstorms embedded in the large cloudmass. The last time we had such a 
healthy looking tropical wave at our doorstep was pre-Claudette on July 7th 
and we ended up getting wind gust to 52mph in St. Lucia. So lets see how 
this system (pre-Fabian) will behave this time.

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• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:21:50 +0000

6:00am conditions: winds NE at about 5 - 10mph, fair skies, fairly clam 
seas. We should begin to feel the first efects of TD #6 by mid-morning but 
we should remain in pretty good shape because it's a weak system ......... 
it's carnival Monday here in St. Lucia though so it would be interesting to 
see how the locals will treat this one.

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• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 02:27:51 +0000

It seems as if we experienced the full force of the tropical wave in St. 
Lucia today. Satellite imagery showed that a tremendous burst of convection 
flared up right over us late this afternoon. At that same moment an official 
wind gust to 52mph was recorded at the George F.L. Charles Airport in 
Castries. But the winds might have gusted much higher in other parts of the 
country since there have been numerous reports of roofs being blown off and 
large branches and trees falling across some roads mainly in the nothern and 
eastern parts of the island. There haven't been any reports of serious 
flooding although the rain was torrential at times and it fell nonstop for 
about 2 hours starting at about 4pm today. The winds gusted so violently at 
times that the heavy rain was being driven horizontally. However, everything 
is very calm and quiet this evening and the winds have abated almost 
completely now and it isn't raining right now. Comparing this strong 
tropical wave with Tropical Storm Lili on September 23rd of last year, it 
dumped alot more rain on St. Lucia between 4pm and 6pm today than Lili 
dumped during the entire 24 hour period during its passage. Lili was a very 
dry tropical storm with less than an inch (25.4mm) of rain recorded in most 
locations but its winds still gusted to over 60mph!

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• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 04:17:28 +0000

It's a very windy night here in St. Lucia with winds averaging 10 - 15 mph 
from the NorthEast to East but gusting to about 25mph at times mainly in the 
showers which have been rather frequent today. It seems that our weather is 
being influence more and more by this approaching disturbance located just 
SouthEast of Barbados. This strong tropical wave certainly looks like 
pre-Claudette. She's tiny but powerful and we should not take her likely as 
the system will bring some blustery & rainy weather to the Windwards on 
Monday whether it develops or not. I hope that it will not be a serious 
situation for us. Afterall ....... the season has just began! We also have a 
huge monster emerging off the African Coast.

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• From: "Marcus Day" <daym AT candw.lc>
• Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:47:44 -0400

• From: "Mike Davis" <mdavis76 AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:17:20 +0000

There is a rather strong tropical wave for the month of June located about 
1400 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. The system is well organized and it 
could become a tropical depression within the next 12 hours. The disturbance 
is centered roughly near 9n 41w late this afternoon and it is moving towards
the west at about 15 - 20 mph. Should this system develop into a tropical 
storm, it will be only the 1st tropical storm to form east of the Lesser 
Antilles in the month of JUNE since Tropical Storm Ana in 1979 and only the 
second tropical storm to form east of the Lesser Antilles in JUNE since 1886 
when hurricane records date back to . . . . . a very rare event.

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