By Kenton X. Chance
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Nov 29, CMC – Caribbean countries are being told that 2025 is likely to be another year of climate extremes with regional forecasters noting that 2024 has been a year of extremes in keeping with their forecast earlier in the year.
Speaking at the 2024-25 Dry Season Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF), climatologist at the Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Dr. Cédric Van Meerbeeck said that conditions are ideal for 2025 to be another successive year of climate extremes in the region.
He said the temperatures have been record high for most of 2023 and this year both in the ocean and in the atmosphere, adding that ocean heat gives climate predictability for the next season.
“We are very well able to forecast the change in the amount of heat in the ocean, and therefore, in some cases, we are quite confident in forecasts of our climate conditions,” he said.
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