Looking Back: May to July 2022

Rainfall
  • The transition into the wet season was wetter than usual in the Bahamas (esp. in the northwest), northeast Belize, Cuba, far southern Guyana, and Suriname where disastrous floods occurred.
  • Short-term drought developed in parts of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico.
Temperature
  • As May to July formed the first half of the 2022 Heat Season, temperatures were high and a few local heatwaves occurred. This period was warmer than usual in southern Puerto Rico, northern parts of The Bahamas, and parts of the Guianas.
  • However, with an ongoing La Niña event suppressing excess heat in the Caribbean, temperatures ended up cooler than usual in northern Belize, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, and eastern Jamaica.
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