This was predicted by the Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum, which also included Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in this list.
The effects of frequent droughts on the region’s islands and Belize are likely to continue. (Photo: PL)
The Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (Caricof) is forecasting heatwaves in Belize, Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago this Wednesday from April and the rest of the islands after May.
“On the contrary, the potential for flooding, flash flooding and cascading hazards will rise to moderate or high during this fifth month of the year,” the Barbados-based company said in a bulletin detailing La Niña’s outflow into the Pacific.
This makes it difficult to predict unusual weather patterns as the Caribbean transitions into the rainy season, Caricof added, citing concerns about increasing long-term drought in some parts of Cuba.
The effects of frequent dry spells on the region’s islands and Belize are likely to continue, with a rise in the potential for wildfires and Saharan dust incursions, she warned.
In the short term (or worse), severity is developing in southeastern Cuba, eastern Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, and long term in Haiti and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, he noted.
The latter could continue in Barbados, northern Belize, eastern Cuba, southern Dominican Republic, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago, the document said.
Areas ending in a prolonged drought in late May are likely to experience lower-than-usual water levels in major reservoirs, major rivers and groundwater, he stressed.
By the end of June it could be held in the Northern Bahamas, Barbados, Northern Belize, Grand Cayman, East and West Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, East Jamaica, West Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago . , and the US Virgin Islands, concluded Caricof.
