Category: Weather
(United Nations News) The planet is facing the triple crises of climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution, Secretary-General António Guterres told the One Ocean Summit on Friday, warning that “the ocean shoulders much of the burden”. As ...
A huge landslide triggered by the heaviest rainfall in Ecuador for almost 20 years has killed at least 11 people in the capital, Quito, officials say. Mud and rocks were carried down the slopes of ...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) Monday said that many Caribbean countries will be starting the new season “with a deficit in water resources” as the region continues to ...
Roseau – Coordinator with the Office of Disaster Management (ODM) here, Fitzroy Pascal has assured Dominicans that there is no need for panic following reports of emissions being observed in the Soufriere area in the ...
Roseau – Dominicans were urged not to panic on Tuesday night after the Office of Disaster Management (ODM) said it had received reports of emissions being observed from the Soufriere area, south of here. “These ...
A tropical depression being tracked in the Atlantic by meteorologists has developed in Tropical Storm Paulette, the 16th named storm of this year’s busy hurricane season. Paulette is the earliest 16th named storm of any ...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) says as the region approaches the second half of the hurricane season, more countries will begin to experience an ease from the ...
Tropical storm Nana was getting better organised southwest of Jamaica on Tuesday, where it is located about 110 miles south of Negril, the beach resort town located across parts of two Jamaican parishes, Westmoreland and ...
BP UPDATE: Tropical Storm #Nana has formed from PTC 16, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h). A Special Advisory will be issued within the hour to update the forecast. http://hurricanes.gov
(CMC): A 10-year-old girl was killed in Haiti today when a tree fell on a house in the town of Anse-à-Pitres, to the southeast of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, as Tropical Storm Laura lashed sections of ...
MIAMI – A tropical storm watch is in effect for St. Kitts and Nevis as the National Hurricane Center is monitoring the evolution of a tropical wave which was located about 750 miles, 1,205 km ...
An area of low pressure that was 1,300 miles east of the Lesser Antilles yesterday has an 80 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression within the next 48 hours, Chief Meteorological Officer Geoffrey Greene ...
Tropical Depression No. 11 is forecast to become a tropical storm on Wednesday night, but is expected to pass “well north” of Barbados on Saturday. According to the Barbados Meteorological Services, at 11 a.m., the ...
Due to current ocean and atmospheric conditions, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts up to 25 hurricanes for 2020. Meteorologists predict that 2020 will see 19 to 25 named storms, of which seven ...
Plantain, banana crops hardest hit; farmers urged to apply for local, federal aid SAN JUAN – Puerto Rico’s agricultural production suffered losses amounting to $47.5 million as a result of the strong winds and heavy ...