SPI Monitor January 2012

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Discussion

January 2012

The majority of the eastern Caribbean and Guyana were normal to above normal except for St. Vincent that was moderately dry and Dominica severely dry. St. Lucia was normal; Trinidad, Tobago, Antigua and St. Croix abnormally wet; Grenada and St. Kitts very wet; Anguila extremely wet; and Guyana ranged from extremely wet in the west to moderately wet in the east. Rainfall in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic were normal. Jamaica was abnormally dry and the Cayman Islands moderately dry. Conditions in Belize ranged from normal in the south to moderately wet in the north.

November 2011 to January 2012

For the three month period, rainfall conditions in the eastern Caribbean and Guyana were normal to above normal, apart from Trinidad that was abnormally dry to normal. Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent and St. Croix were normal; St. Lucia abnormally wet; Barbados and Dominica moderately wet; Grenada, Antigua and St. Kitts very wet; Anguilla exceptionally wet; and Guyana extremely wet in the north to normal in the south. Rainfall in Puerto Rico was abnormally to moderately wet and the Dominican Republic was moderately wet in the south west to moderately dry in the northeast. Jamaica was abnormally dry in the west and moderately dry in the east, while the Cayman islands was abnormally dry. Conditions in Belize ranged from normal in the south to moderately dry in the north.

August 2011 to January 2012

Apart from Tobago that was abnormally dry, rainfall in the eastern Caribbean and Guyana were normal to above normal for the six month period. Trinidad, Grenada, St.. Lucia and St. Croix were normal; St. Vincent abnormally wet; Barbados, Dominica and Antigua moderately wet, St. Kitts very wet; Anguilla extremely wet; and Guyana ranged from very wet in the west to normal in the east. Puerto Rico was extremely to exceptionally wet, while conditions in the Dominican Republic ranged from normal in the south to moderately dry in the north. Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Belize were normal.

February 2011 to January 2012

The eastern Caribbean and Guyana were normal to above normal for the period. Trinidad, Tobago and St. Croix were normal; Antigua moderately wet; Barbados, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia very wet; Anguilla and St. Kitts extremely wet; Dominica exceptionally wet; and Guyana moderately wet in the west and abnormally wet in the east. Puerto Rico was extremely to exceptionally wet, but the Dominican Republic was predominantly normal apart from the extreme southwest that was abnormally wet. Jamaica was abnormally wet but the Cayman Islands was moderately dry. Belize was predominantly normal.