Bdos: Forget the day after

The nation’s top meteorological experts have dismissed the possibility that the unusually heavy rainfall in the last two months that peaked with heavy showers starting from Sunday and continuing through Monday is an indication of climate change sweeping Barbados‚ traditional meteorological landscape.

Citing months of heavy rainfall during comparable periods in 1981 and 1990, Principal of the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Dr. Colin Depradine explained that the current unseasonal pattern of heavy rainfall plaguing Barbados, while unusual, is not lacking in precedence.

“It would be extremely difficult to ascribe this current weather to climate change,” said Dr. Depradine. “There is no compelling evidence to put down the recent heavy rainfall we’ve been experiencing to climate change as we’ve seen in some parts of the world. While these events may be consistent with climate change, they certainly do not seem the result of climate change.”