ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – A two-day Caribbean Regional Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) began here on Monday with the region being told to brace itself for wetter than usual season and chances of more hurricane activity this year than in past five years.

Climatologist with the Dominica Meteorologist Service, (DMS) Annie Carrette-Jospeh, who presented the Wet/Hurricane Season Outlook for 2016, said that between the period June to August, there would also be a gradual drought alleviation across the region and that “ssurface water reservoirs will recharge, there will be soil moisture replenishment and an increased in river flow.

She predicted that water shortage related problems in agriculture will disappear in many places and that “where it has not already started, the wet season may start abruptly in June”.

The outlook noted that the second half of the wet season will be wetter or usual in countries like Belize and the Leeward Islands with Carrette-Joseph warning that “moist conditions may favour mosquito breeding”.

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