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- high seas

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 19:08:22 +0000

Good afternoon

St Maarten like many of the other islands is having very high seas today from a frontal boundary. Although its not raining now, we had a lot of rain earlier.

The French Meteo placed us under orange alert for high seas.
https://meteofrance.gp/fr/vigilance/saint-martin-saint-barthelemy

The seas were coming in high at the Maho Beach where the planes fly in. The road was briefly closed.

There was a lot of surfing going on at Mullet Beach.

All of the northern shores have very high surf.
You can see the waves coming in at Maho from the web cam as the planes are coming in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IQmpCXbOmM

- Current report from St Maarten

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:36:40 +0000

So far, thankfully, tropical storm Jerry has been a nonevent on St Maarten.

Everything is closed up tight, but our weather has not been extreme yet. It's windy and squally but no significant impacts from wind or rain.

This is the current update from the authorities.

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- TS JERRY

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 21:34:00 +0000

Hello everyone

We are still under a tropical storm watch, and we are expecting some bad weather from Jerry Thursday night into Friday.

Hope everybody in the northeast Caribbean stays safe.

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- Tropical storm watch

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 21:39:50 +0000

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- Jerry

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 18:32:13 +0000

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- 94L

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:35:41 +0000

Good evening

It looks like 94 L. is passing mostly to our south. We have had forecasts since yesterday that it was going to be rainy today, but it was a sunny day. We did get some light rain later in the afternoon and we've had a couple of light showers tonight. We will see what happens overnight.

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- Hope we get some rain, but not too much

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:24:42 +0000

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- We can relax for now 👏

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2025 18:27:44 +0000

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- Good news

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 18:42:30 +0000

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- remembering Luis 30 years ago, and watching future Gabrielle

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 15:52:53 +0000

Remembering Luis September 4th and 5th 1995

A powerful storm, Hurricane Luis, impacted the Leeward Islands 30 years ago, from September 4-6, 1995. The storm caused extensive damage to Antigua, St. Barthelemy, St.Maarten, St. Martin, and Anguilla, leaving nearly 20,000 people homeless and affecting over 70,000. Total damage was estimated at $3.3 billion (1995 USD). The storm caused 19 confirmed deaths before it weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and became extratropical on September 11, after making landfall on Newfoundland

- Erin is behind us

By <vanslotenklaas at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:47:57 -0400

We have been so luckily! Erin past without any damage north of our island. 50 miles or more closer by, and we would have experienced heavy winds. Hardly any wind and much less rain as predicted. Heavy rains would have resulted in mudslides, road damage and soil from our dry hills would just have ended up via our roads in the sea. Only 25 mm of rain and a highest wind gust of 26 mph was measured during yesterday in Oyster Pond, and most of the rain came down in a drizzle. Last night and this morning lightning and thunder far enough away. Now the humidity, but better than wind damage.

The sea northeast of Saint Martin is quit, the situation is nearly back to normal.

The south coast of Sint Maarten is still experiencing a swell.

- Erin just won't go away

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:36:25 +0000

Good evening

St Maarten is getting heavy rain and wind tonight from Hurricane Erin. It's coming in heavy squalls.

We are on the edge of her tail. From what I am reading and seeing, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are getting hit hard tonight.

Hoping everyone stays safe.

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- CAT 5 Erin

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:15:54 +0000

Good afternoon

I cannot believe Erin is now a CAT 5. That's so crazy.

I am so thankful she passed north of us and the other islands.

We are truly blessed.

Overnight we had some rain but not much at all. We heard some thunder. There was no wind at all.

It was very quiet this morning with light rain.

Just a little while ago the winds picked up and things started blowing around.

This is the latest report from the airport.

Conditions at	Aug 16, 2025 - 01:00 PM EDT Aug 16, 2025 - 12:00 PM CDT Aug 16, 2025 - 11:00 AM MDT Aug 16, 2025 - 10:00 AM PDT Aug 16, 2025 - 09:00 AM ADT Aug 16, 2025 - 07:00 AM HST 2025.08.16 1700 UTC
Wind	from the SW (220 degrees) at 23 MPH (20 KT)
Visibility	greater than 7 mile(s)
Sky conditions	mostly clear
Weather	Light rain
Temperature	80 F (27 C)
Dew Point	80 F (27 C)
Relative Humidity	100%
Pressure (altimeter)	29.71 in. Hg (1006 hPa)

- So far, so good. - Cat 5 Hurricane Erin

By Jesús L.A. Richardson <jesusinsxm at hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:22:37 +0000

Good afternoon,

So far, so good here in Upper Prince's Quarter.

Overcast, breezy and intermittent showers every now and then.

Heard thunder and showers just before dawn.

Might venture out to snap some photos before the expected heavy rains.

The airport announced their closure a few minutes ago on Facebook, see the attached.

I've been looking at the various livestreams available online.

Port St. Maarten (from Holland House): https://www.portstmaartenwebcam.com/

From atop St. Peters Hill (courtesy Island 92, I believe): https://www.sxmislandcam.com/#google_vignette

Boardwalk/Great Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Mb2bjYwZo

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Maho Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtzkkAeW_Qg

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Lower Simpson Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=525dNEryfQ4

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- Sint Maarten update

By Klaas van Sloten <klaasvansloten at outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:41:14 +0000

Hurricane Erin was updated to Cat 4, and luckily it is far enough away not to cause any serious problems for our island. It is quiet on the island, in the Oyster Pond area we received 8.4 mm of rain, and the wind is on an average of 8 mph with gusts up to 18 mph. Our Meteo office started a new updating format this year and doing a great job.

Dark clouds with little rain.

Latest Sint Maarten Meteo update.

Stay safe, Klaas

- Erin - St.Maarten

By "Glen A. Carty" <gacarty at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:46:13 -0400

Hi Gert

At the moment completely overcast, no rain, fresh breeze, some swells.

Kind regards,

Glen
Laser 101 St.Maarten
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- The weather is still quiet on St Maarten.

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:32:50 +0000

Planned for a pizza party tonight, but since Erin is in the neighborhood we are calling it a hurricane pizza party. Homemade pizza made by our Italian friend.

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- TS Erin updates

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:51:47 +0000

Good afternoon

I continue to follow the progress of tropical storm Erin. One of my most trusted sources is Brian Shields, Mr. Weatherman. I follow him on YouTube and he is a credible source of good information for the Caribbean islands.

This is a graphic from him regarding what to possibly expect from Erin.

In addition, our Met Office has sent out the following notice.

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- Erin

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:50:06 +0000

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- A walk through the garden

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:39:08 +0000

As I mentioned in my other post, we are all waiting and watching the Track of tropical storm, Erin. But in the meantime, I had some visitors in my garden today that I thought you might like To see. They didn't seem too worried about a possible storm coming. They were just taking a casual walk through the garden. Hope you enjoy.

Barbara

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- How close will Erin come?

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 02:41:10 +0000

Good evening

Everyone on St. Maarten is closely watching the track of Tropical Storm Erin.

The models still have her passing north of the islands , but I'm still waiting for the storm to make that turn.

I think probably we will see high seas, wind, and rain, but not hurricane winds.

We have a tool on this website that shows us how close the storm can get.

I find it a very useful tool, especially when a storm is coming so close.

Gert and Dave keep this site running and it's very helpful to us all. I hope that many of you can consider making a donation, as Gert has requested.

What would we do without this site?

Stay safe, everyone, we are entering the point of highest activity in hurricane season.

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- Greetings from St Maarten.

By Barbara Cannegieter <barcann at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 16:42:59 +0000

Hello

The weather is hot and dry. We need rain. The air tastes dusty.

I’m doing my best to collect my mangoes before the monkeys steal them, and I’m managing to keep the plants in the garden alive, even though there’s no rain.

So far the Mandevilla seems very happy.