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Urgent – Marine Weather Message
Small Craft Advisory
Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Services
2:50 pm Monday 24 March, 2025

…Small craft advisory for Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla …

Locations to be affected: Mainly, open waters on the Eastern and Northern sides of the islands out to 20 nautical miles.

Timing: From midnight until Wednesday morning for Montserrat
From midnight until Wednesday night for Antigua and Barbuda
From Tuesday morning until Wednesday dawn for the British Virgin Islands
From Tuesday morning until Wednesday morning for St. Kitts and Nevis
From Tuesday morning until Wednesday night for Anguilla

Synopsis: Fresh to strong winds associated with a tight pressure gradient, are generating a combination of wind waves and wind swells, resulting in hazardous seas, mainly on the eastern and
northern sides of the islands.

The threat level to the life, livelihood, property and infrastructure of mariners is to rise to moderate with the potential for significant impacts.

A small craft advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots and or wind waves and or wind swells of 7 feet or greater
are occurring or imminent.

Winds over open waters: East at 26 to 39 km/h (14 to 21 knots; 16 to 24 mph), with strong gusts to 55 km/h (30 knots; 34 mph).

Seas (significant wave heights): 1.8 to 2.7 metres (6 to 9 feet), occasionally or locally reaching near 3.4 metres (11 feet).

Wind waves and or wind swells of 2.1 to 2.4 metres or 7 to 8 feet and occasionally higher. The dominant wind-wave period is 6 to 8 seconds.

Potential Impacts: Loss of life at sea; injuries to mariners; capsize or damage or loss of vessels and marine equipment; financial losses; disruption of fisheries and scarcity of fish products and disruption to marine transportation.

Caution: Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in these conditions.

Please continue to monitor these hazardous, life-threatening marine conditions. Stay tuned to updates from the Meteorological Office through antiguamet.com and Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @abmetservice.

Also, stay tuned to ABS Radio and TV along with other media platforms for updates.

Forecaster: Lorne Salmon