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Message BMS_20240701195930 from Barbados_Meteorological_Services sent at 15:59:30 on 2024-07-01
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WEATHER INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR BARBADOS # 5 ON TROPICAL WAVE OF INTEREST
Effective
15:59:30 2024-07-01
Expires
09:00:00 2024-07-02
Description
The Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) continues to closely monitor a tropical wave located along 41W, about 1200 miles / 1960 km to the east of Barbados moving westward at 15 to 20mph, at 4 pm, today Monday 1st July, 2024. This is separate and distinct from Hurricane Beryl.
Potential Impacts
This feature will affect Barbados sometime on Wednesday 3rd July, 2024 and during this time excessive rainfall, gusty winds and a deterioration of marine conditions are likely.
What you should do
The public is encouraged to monitor the BMS, DEM and GIS websites and their respective social media pages along with the local media networks for further updates over the coming days.
Discussion
This tropical wave has an associated area of low pressure. The feature is currently poorly organized. Over the next few days, environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for some slow developement as the wave tracks westwards across the Atlantic and is expected to be a strong tropical wave when it moves into our area.
General Information
This information statement was issued at 4pm Monday 1st July, 2024 and will be updated at 9am Tuesday 2nd July, 2024.
For more information specific to your area, please visit www.barbadosweather.org, our social media pages or call our hotline at 976-2376 or the office at 535-0022.
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For more information and authentication of this message kindly use the direct web link provided in this message, or visit our social media pages http://www.barbadosweather.org | Facebook@BarbadosMeteorologicalServices | Instagram@BarbadosMetServices | Twitter@BarbadosMet
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Andrew Daniel
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