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Today’s Weather: Sunday 4th May 2023

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Temperature: 29°C / 83°F
Humidity: 80%
Sea Level Pressure: 1014.2mbs or 29.95″
Winds: East-southeast to South at 8 to 16 mph.
Seas: 1.5 metres or 5 feet or less.
Sunset: Today 6:43 pm
Sunrise: Tomorrow 5:36 am
Today’s Forecast for St. Kitts & Nevis (7 am): Weather today: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent or slight chance of showers. Weather tonight: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent or slight chance of showers…Full Details

Videos

Let us Listen: Speaks to the natural hazards common to countries in the Caribbean, while recognizing different impacts among them – performed at the Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management and Financial Resilience Workshop for Overseas Countries and Territories in the Caribbean, held in Aruba in November 2022.

Climate Center

Heat Outlook for May to October 2023

What impacts are expected from excessive heat on health, agriculture, tourism, energy, water, DRM, childcare and education? How hot will the next 3 to 6 months be? How many heatwave days to expect? Get the answers.

CariCOF Caribbean Climate Outlooks: May to July 2023

Summary: “The Pacific may transition into El Niño conditions while ocean temperatures around the Caribbean are expected to increase to above-average. This makes it difficult to confidently forecast…read more

CDPMN Caribbean Drought Bulletin – April 2023

With conditions possibly shifting from La Nina to El Nino in the pacific during the summer of 2023, there is some uncertainty regarding conditions in the Caribbean for April to June, except in the vicinity of the…read more

Caribbean Tourism Climatic Bulletin: March – May 2023

Climate risk management linked to enhancing visitor health and safety, remains a critical factor in ensuring tourism sector resilience…read more

News

CCRIF Leeward Islands Earthquake Final Event Briefing: 20 January 2023

EXCERPT: Under CCRIF’s loss calculation protocol, a report using the CCRIF SPHERA model is produced for any earthquake with a magnitude greater than or equal to 5.0 that occurs within the region monitored by CCRIF and which generates a peak ground acceleration of at least 0.01 g in one or more grid cells of at least one CCRIF member country. Based on the SPHERA footprint for this earthquake, peak ground acceleration of up to 0.020 g was estimated in Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Dominica (Figure 2), but under the SPHERA model, the earthquake generated a loss estimation of zero.

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