The CariCOF Climate Outlooks for December 2024 to February 2025 are now available. These include:
- Heat Outlook
- Flash Flood Potential Outlook (Experimental)
- Temperature Outlook Maps
- Precipitation Outlook Maps
- Wet Days & Wet Spells Outlook
- Drought Outlook
- Dry Spells Outlook and
- The Caribbean Climate Outlook Newsletter
The following excerpt from CariCOF’s Caribbean Climate Outlook Newsletter summarises the climate conditions and related hazards for the upcoming 3-month period December 2024 to February 2025:
Unusually warm Tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperatures combined with possible La Niña conditions in the equatorial Pacific imply:
(i) increased severe weather activity through December (January in the Guianas), resulting in high to extremely high potential for flooding, flash floods, cascading hazards and associated impacts;
(ii) short dry spells are set to increase in frequency, particularly in the far northwest of the region, despite that the Islands and Belize are expected to transition into the 2024-25 Dry Season several weeks late. Short and long-term drought are evolving in southwest Belize, southeast Puerto Rico and the USVI.
(iii) Widespread extreme heat is not expected during the Caribbean Cool Season.