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Conditions for Bridgetown at 11:00 pm AST
Current Conditions:
Rain Shower, 27 C
Forecast:
Wed - Scattered Showers. High: 30 Low: 26
Thu - Scattered Showers. High: 29 Low: 26
Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather
(provided by The Weather Channel)
Humidity: 89%
Wind: 24.14 kph
Sunrise: 5:41 am
Sunset: 6:27 pm
Yahoo! Weather - Bridgetown, Barbados
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It is warm and sunny all year round with an average daytime high of 75 - 85 F. The nights are usually slightly cooler.
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The prevailing northeast tradewinds blow steadily so that although it
is bright and sunny, it is not unbearably hot.
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The rain usually comes in quick showers. The dry season lasts from January
to June.
Barbados weather: Sunny days and stormy weather
 Barbados weather is mostly sunny and fair with warm days, cool
winds and cozy nights.
We are in the tropics, and believe it or not, some people actually put
on a sweater in the cool night winter time breezes. Barbadians complain
that the sea is cold when its 78oF !!!
It rains most in summer and a good rainfall is refreshing and much
needed. Rain is usually followed quickly by sunny skies and within minutes
everything will be dry.
Tropical rainstorms sometimes occur in the
hurricane season which runs from June to October (as we say in Barbados -
"June too soon, October all over!"). Tropical rains are spectacular
but the island is very porous and the heaviest rains quickly drain off
into the underground lakes or the sea.
Hurricanes usually avoid Barbados. They
arise off the African Coast and head to the Caribbean, swinging North about
100 miles from Barbados.
The pattern is reasonably consistent as hurricanes
tend to bounce from one land mass to the next and Barbados is somewhat
separate from the Caribbean island chain. This does not of course make
us immune, but the last occasion which Barbados suffered a direct hit was
in 1955. There is a story of a bus driver who drove his passengers
straight through the worst of Barbados' hurricanes, "was a bit of a breeze"
he is supposed to have said.
Other recorded hurricanes to hit the island occurred in 1898 and
1831.
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