The CariCOF Climate Outlooks for January to March 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 January to March 2025:

Unusually warm Tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperatures forecasted for this period imply: (i) increased severe weather activity through early February in the Guianas, resulting in high to extremely high potential for flooding, flash floods, cascading hazards and associated impacts; (iii) short dry spells increase in frequency during the core of the 2024-25 Dry Season, particularly in the far northwest of the region. Short and long-term drought are evolving in southwest Belize and southern Puerto Rico. Widespread extreme heat is not expected through February, i.e., during the Caribbean Cool Season -, but may occur in parts of Belize and Trinidad during March. Recurrent incursion of Saharan dust into the Caribbean is possible.