BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Local weather Outlook Discussion board (CariCOF) Monday stated North Atlantic temperatures ought to stay above common, persevering with to gasoline excessive tropical cyclone exercise.
In its newest Caribbean Local weather Outlooks, CariCOF stated that from October to December this yr, there shall be amplified warmth stress by way of October with larger temperatures, humidity, and heatwave frequency. It stated that it will gasoline a record-breaking Caribbean warmth season.
CariCOF stated that there can even be elevated bathe depth through the peak of the moist season, resulting in a excessive potential for flooding and cascading hazards.
“Nonetheless, a average to sturdy El Niño within the Pacific ought to dampen rainfall frequency in Belize and the southern Caribbean, the place drought issues come up. Warmth and drought are a rising concern within the coastal Guianas, as is flood potential by way of December,” CariCOF added.
As of September, extreme, or worse, short-term drought has developed in Grand Cayman, French Guiana, northern Guyana, jap Suriname, Tobago, and the US Virgin Islands.
Lengthy-term drought to the top of November is evolving in western Belize, Dominica, southern French Guiana, Martinique, southeast Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago. It’d develop or proceed in Aruba, Bonnaire and Curacao, Barbados, French Guiana, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Sint Maarten/St-Martin.
CariCOF stated short-term drought to the top of December, is evolving in central and southern French Guiana, Suriname, and Trinidad and would possibly develop in Dominica, Guyana, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and northern French Guiana.
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