World Meteorological Organization

Beneficiary Countries & Territories:  

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean including Members of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO)

CMO Members: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,  British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago

Others: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Sint Maarten (the Netherlands), Martinique/Guadeloupe/Saint-Martin/Saint-Barth/Saint-Barthélemy (France), Puerto-Rico/US Virgin Islands (USA), Saint-Eustatius & Saba (the Netherlands)

• Regional Forecast Support Facility (RFSF) Martinique (since 2018) (password protected)

Other relevant Centres:

• RSMC Miami (for hurricane forecast support)   
• CIMH Barbados: NWP LAM products (WRF NMM); Dust & Air Quality products; Wave forecasting products
• SCOPE - Nowcasting products (by CPTEC INPE Brazil)         

Global Centres/WMCs:

• MeteoFrance (WMC Toulouse): NWP data and products
• WMC ECMWF; ENS Meteograms; and Forecaster User Guide
• WMC Montreal: EPSgrams for Caribbean; Deterministic data; Ensemble data
• NCEP/NOAA (WMC Washington): Central America and the Caribbean domain; Caribbean domain algorithms and additional products
• DWD (WMC Offenbach); Link for ICON Model data

Main Focus (Severe weather types):

Present Status:

• Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative funds for the Caribbean
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) funds through CREWS-SIDS & SE-Asia (2017-2021)