SPI Monitor May 2012

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Discussion

May 2012

The eastern Caribbean and Guyana experienced normal to above normal rainfall for May. Trinidad, St. Vincent and St. Kitts were very wet; Tobago and Antigua moderately wet; Grenada and Barbados exceptionally wet; St. Lucia and Anguilla extremely wet; Dominca and St. Croix normal; and Guyana ranged from very wet in the northwest to normal in the east. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic were normal. Jamaica was abnormally dry but Cayman Islands exceptionally wet. Conditions in Belize ranged from moderately wet in the south to exceptionally wet in the north; but in Cuba moderately dry to abnormally wet.

March 2012 to May 2012

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

December 2011 to May 2012

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

June 2011 to May 2012

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