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 <sent>2024-10-16T15:02:32-00:00</sent> 
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   <event>Wind</event>               <!-- String Title -->
   <urgency>Future</urgency>             <!-- Immediate,Expected,Future,Past,Unknown -->
   <severity>Minor</severity>             <!-- Extreme,Severe,Moderate,Minor,Unknown -->
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   <headline>WEATHER INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR BARBADOS #3</headline>              <!-- String Title -->
   <description>The Barbados Meteorological Services is closely monitoring the progress of an area of low pressure near 16N 49W, at 11:00 am LST. This is about 1154 km or 717 miles to the east-northeast of Barbados.

Potential impacts
This feature is expected to track north of Barbados Thursday into Friday, as such, no direct impacts 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
Environmental conditions are marginally conducive to the slow development of the feature later this week. As the feature nears the island chain light wind speeds are anticipated Wednesday and Thursday resulting in warm daytime temperatures with possible isolated localized shower activity into the afternoon.

General Information
This information statement was issued at 11:00 am Wednesday 16th October 2024. The next update will be at 11:00 am, Thursday 17th October 2024.</description>         <!-- String Title -->
   <instruction>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</instruction>         <!-- String Title -->
   <web>http://www.barbadosweather.org</web> 
   <contact>Andre Brathwaite</contact>           <!-- String Title -->
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