The Caribbean Regional Climate Centre
Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
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CariCOF Drought Outlook by the End of August 2015
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Drought Outlook, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne DepradineWet Days and Wet Spells Outlooks June to August 2015
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Long Range Forecasts, Wet Days and Wet Spells /by Wayne DepradineCaribbean Drought Bulletin Vol 1 Issue 12 May 2015
/in Climate Bulletins, Drought /by Wayne DepradineSPI Monitor April 2015
/in Climate Monitoring, SPI Monitor /by Wayne DepradineSPI Discussion April 2015
April 2015
The eastern Caribbean and Guyana were normal to below normal apart from St. Vincent and St. Lucia that were moderately wet. Trinidad, Tobago and St. Kitts were normal; Grenada, Antigua and Anguilla moderately dry; Barbados normal to slightly dry; Dominica extremely dry; St. Maarten and St. Croix slightly dry; and Guyana normal in the west and slightly dry in the east. Aruba was normal while Puerto Rico was normal to slightly dry. The Dominican Republic was predominantly normal, but conditions in Jamaica ranged from normal in the west to extremely dry in the east. Grand Cayman was slightly dry. Conditions in Belize ranged from severely dry in the south to slightly wet in the north.
February to April 2015
November 2014 to April 2015
May 2014 to April 2015
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.
SPI Outlook May to July 2015
/in Long Range Forecasts, SPI Outlook /by Wayne DepradineSPI Outlook November 2014 to January 2015
/in Long Range Forecasts, SPI Outlook /by Wayne DepradineSPI Outlook January to March 2015
/in Long Range Forecasts, SPI Outlook /by Wayne DepradineCariCOF Drought Outlook by the End of July 2015
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Drought Outlook, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne DepradineCaribbean Climate Outlook Newsletter May to July 2015
/in CariCOF Climate Outlooks, Climate Outlook Newsletter, Long Range Forecasts /by Wayne Depradine