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SPI Monitor April 2016
/in SPI Monitor /by Wayne DepradineApril 2016
Mixed conditions were experienced in the eastern Caribbean islands. Trinidad was normal to slightly wet; Tobago and St. Lucia slightly wet; Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, Anguilla and St. Maarten normal; Barbados slight to moderately dry; St. Vincent moderate to severely dry; and St. Kitts slightly dry. Guyana was slight to moderately wet. Aruba was slightly dry while Curacao was slight to moderately dry. Western Puerto Rico was normal but varied to very wet in the east; while in the Dominican Republic central areas were normal but the west was slight to moderately wet and the east slight to exceptionally wet. Jamaica was predominantly normal but was slightly dry in the extreme northwest, while Grand Cayman was normal. Conditions in Cuba ranged from normal to moderately dry in the west to normal to extremely wet in the east. Conditions in Belize ranged from normal in the southwest to severely dry in the northeast.
February to April 2016
November to April 2016
May 2015 to April 2016
Disclaimer
The information contained herein is provided with the understanding that The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the Outlook. The information may be used freely by the public with appropriate acknowledgement of its source, but shall not be modified in content and then presented as original material.
The maps produced used SPI values calculated from monthly rainfall totals from land stations and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. Only land station data is used for the eastern Caribbean, described here as from Georgetown, Guyana in the south to Anguilla in the north. The Greater (and Western) Antilles is less represented by land stations. However efforts are being made to include more land stations from that part of the region. Note that the severity implied by the index is relative to what is normal for that period of consideration. Normal in the drier season reflects less rainfall than in the wetter season.
Caribbean Coral Reef Watch Vol 1 Issue 8 May 2016
/in Climate Bulletins, Coral Reef /by Wayne DepradineJanuary-February-March 2016 Rainfall Verification
/in Forecast Quality Verifications, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne DepradinePrecipitation Outlook January – February – March 2016
January – February – March 2016 Observed Tercile-Based Rainfall Categories
January – February – March 2016 Observed Percentage of Average Rainfall
December 2015-January-February 2016 Rainfall Verification
/in Forecast Quality Verifications, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne DepradinePrecipitation Outlook December 2015 – January – February 2016
December 2015 – January – February 2016 Observed Tercile-Based Rainfall Categories
December 2015 – January – February 2016 Observed Percentage of Average Rainfall
Caribbean Climate Outlook Newsletter May to July 2016
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Climate Outlook Newsletter, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne DepradineCariCOF Drought Outlook by the End of July 2016
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Drought Outlook, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne DepradineWet Days and Wet Spells Outlooks May to July 2016
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Long Range Forecasts, Wet Days and Wet Spells /by Wayne DepradineCaribbean Drought Bulletin Vol 2 Issue 11 April 2016
/in Climate Bulletins, Drought /by Wayne DepradineSPI Monitor March 2016
/in SPI Monitor /by Wayne DepradineMarch 2016
Rainfall was mixed in the eastern Caribbean islands for the month. Trinidad was moderately dry; Tobago, Barbados, St. Vincent, Antigua and St. Kitts normal; Grenada slightly dry; St. Lucia, Anguilla and St. Maarten slightly wet; Dominica very wet; and St. Croix moderately wet. Conditions in Guyana ranged from normal in the north to severely dry in southern areas. Aruba and Curacao were normal, and Puerto Rico was predominantly so. Conditions in the Dominican Republic ranged from very wet in the west to moderately dry in the east; while in Jamaica they ranged from moderately dry in the west to normal in the east. Grand Cayman was normal. In Cuba, conditions ranged from slightly dry in central areas to exceptional wet in some part of the west. In Belize, the conditions ranged from moderately dry in the south to normal in the north.
January to March 2016
October 2015 to March 2016
April 2015 to March 2016
Disclaimer
The information contained herein is provided with the understanding that The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the Outlook. The information may be used freely by the public with appropriate acknowledgement of its source, but shall not be modified in content and then presented as original material.
The maps produced used SPI values calculated from monthly rainfall totals from land stations and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. Only land station data is used for the eastern Caribbean, described here as from Georgetown, Guyana in the south to Anguilla in the north. The Greater (and Western) Antilles is less represented by land stations. However efforts are being made to include more land stations from that part of the region. Note that the severity implied by the index is relative to what is normal for that period of consideration. Normal in the drier season reflects less rainfall than in the wetter season.