Outlook for drought across the region alleviated
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) on Tuesday said despite many parts of the Caribbean continuing to receive below-normal rainfall in May, the outlook for drought across the region should be alleviated by August.
In its latest publication, CIMH said that the drought “is still very much on the cards and likely to continue throughout the wet season with no long-term drought that affects large reservoirs and rivers and groundwater being of concern.”
It continued: “Though interests in western Belize would be recommended to monitor their water resources until at least to September, there is not much concern in the region over short-term drought that can impact small rivers, streams and ponds.”
CIMH said that over the three months – March to May – conditions throughout the eastern Caribbean were predominantly normal to below normal, with a few wet areas in the southern portions of the chain.