World Meteorological Organization

Beneficiary Countries & Territories:  

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

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

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

Regional SWF Centre:

• 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 
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (WMC Montreal)
• NCEP/NOAA (WMC Washington): Central America domain; Caribbean domain algorithms and additional products
• DWD (WMC Offenbach) (to access to global NWP/ICON Model data); WMC Offenbach graphical products

Main Focus (Severe weather types):

Heavy rain, strong winds and damaging waves

Present Status:

Phase-II 

Download:

Regional Subproject Implementation Plan  (RSIP)

Development partners/ Donors:

• 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)