Looking Back: May-June-July 2023

Rainfall
  • The transition into the wet season was wetter than usual in the Bahamas, Cuba, southwest Dominican Republic, Grenada, southeast Haiti, and Trinidad.
  • Short-term drought developed in parts of coastal French Guiana, southwestern Jamaica.
Temperature
  • As May to July formed the first half of the 2022 Heat Season and significantly warmer than usual, temperatures were particularly high, including a number of locations across the region breaking historical record high values. In addition, there was a far higher frequency of heatwaves in many places across the Caribbean Islands and Belize than in the same period in 2021 and 2022.
  • The only recorded exception to the unusually pronounced heat was southeast Jamaica, where temperatures recorded averaged over the three-month period were slightly cooler than usual.
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