- Updates from the Islands - - - Barbados - - | home | tools | pleas for help | QHWRN | guide | climatology | archive | Tweet - barbados From: "sydmouth at caribsurf.com" <sydmouth at caribsurf.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:22:04 -0400 Weak tropical wave passed over Barbados today - some parts of the island had a shower and the rest nothing. Cloudy with sunny periods. Still very warm. All in all not a bad day. - Barbados From: "sydmouth at caribsurf.com" <sydmouth at caribsurf.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:04:08 -0400 Barbados has been looking for the rain since last night and so far nothing. It feels like 40 degrees, hot, sticky, overcast and hardly any wind. The sun keeps peeping through. Not a bad day so far. - That was BERTHA - just a fish storm? From: Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:06:10 -0400 Hi there again, since my previous report, we had one of the most beautiful days around here, pretty humid though, but not really hot. Not a drop of rain but plenty of sunshine since my last report. Winds were much less than the weeks before. Aircraft are partially taking off heading West from the runway, clouds flying North, everything seems to be "upside down" and Bertha gone. And she has not much of a trail on the satellite images. So, that was just a "fish storm" for us here, down South in B'dos? Well, then! Better this way rather than disaster! At least, I got my surroundings tidied up! *TWINKLE* Same good luck for you folks on the other islands! Jurgen Starck Barbados (South), near airport (BGI) - Bertha - short lived? From: Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:52:06 -0400 Good morning to all, at about 5:00 am (AST) Barbados was experiencing some winds along with showers coming in from North East, indicating that the island was under the influence of "Bertha's" vortex. This could and still can be confirmed by the Barbados weather radar imagery (http://barbadosweather.org/). BTW, the radar imagery is also useful for other Eastern Caribbean islands. At 11:00 am the local MET office will lift the storm warning for Barbados, according to their current advisory #2A. Strom force winds will not affect the island, due to the distance of 56.6 miles in which Bertha will pass our island in the North East and the reach of only 45 miles of those winds apart from it's centre, if everything continues as projected so far. May be the Northern part of Barbados could get "a little blow". As to my very personal observation (THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL INFORMATION!), it seems that Bertha may have deteriorated to a Tropical Depression. The "how close can it get tool" shows a black line for it's pass, indicating TD and the satellite imagery also shows signs of lesser organisation of Bertha. For sure, no reason to get complacent! Bertha has changed it's data a few times on it's way, so why not again! Currently, the weather is really nice, blue sky with patches of white clouds and next to no wind. However, "the party is only over when the fat lady sings.", there is certainly quite a bit of rainfall to be expected once Bertha (or it's remnants) have passed. MET says 1 - 3 inches for late afternoon. Everyone may take care and stay safe. Jurgen Starck Barbados (South), near airport (BGI) - Bertha From: "sydmouth at caribsurf.com" <sydmouth at caribsurf.com> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 07:20:04 -0400 Good morning - Waiting for Bertha to see what she has in store for us, starting this afternoon. Basically calling for heavy pockets of rain, possible thunderstorms and storm force winds. At present after a few showers the weather is beautiful. Cool but blue skies with the sun shining. Lovely. Today Emancipation Day so National Holiday. This is also our Kadooment weekend, Monday the big finale parading down Spring Garden Highway. Sunday weather maybe ok but I would imagine there is going to be some bedraggled and sad looking feathers with running makeup this weekend. Stay safe.. - Game On From: Mark M <markbgi at hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:26:30 -0400 The skies cleared within half an hour of my last report. Blue skies were the order of the evening as TD2 lost steam east of the islands. Tridents Vs Zouks is on at the Oval. Tridents are in in strong position at the moment. - Bridgetown,Barbados From: Mark M <markbgi at hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:18:02 -0400 TD#2 has reached Barbados. Current conditions are cloudy/overcast. Bridgetown and the South Coast have now disappeared under what looks like heavy rain from this vantage point. We have not seen the thunder storms or high winds as forecasted but the CPLt20 match scheduled for Kensington Oval at 4PM maybe affected. More reports soon... Sent from my iPhone via LIME - Tropical wave From: Peter Allen <stilettocruises at yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:36:26 -0700 Quite blustery winds here today gusting to 25 kts,tropical wave passing through with our Doppler showing plenty rain just south of us,Grenada looks to be getting most of the rain,so far this afternoon we have not had a drop 3.30pm. Fingers crossed for a quiet season. - Barbados From: "sydmouth at caribsurf.com" <sydmouth at caribsurf.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:27:38 -0400 It's raining, it's raining and no-one is complaining. We have waited so long for this. Hopefully all day... - Barbados From: "sydmouth at caribsurf.com" <sydmouth at caribsurf.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:28:20 -0400 I can't believe that the tropical wave that we were all looking forward to for some relief in the rain department has passed under us, through us and around us and given us not one drop. Long range our next chance is next Friday. This is awful - I cannot remember in all the years I have been in Barbados going this long without any rain at all. Everything is looking so wilted and dried up. - Barbados From: "sydmouth at caribsurf.com" <sydmouth at caribsurf.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:44:21 -0400 Hello from Barbados. We are currently experiencing a drought. It really hasn't rained per se for weeks and weeks. Every day just strong winds and sunshine. Everything in my garden is looking very sad although I try to put some water on the root systems late in the afternoon. The next 10 day forecast is looking almost the same as we have had. Just sunshine. Here's hoping we do have a very quiet hurricane season with no surprises. Back to top | home | tools | pleas for help | QHWRN | guide | climatology | archive |