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Climate Prediction Center’s Hispaniola Hazards Outlook For USAID / FEWS-NET
April 26 – May 2, 2012
The forecasted heavy rainfall increases the risks for flash flooding and landslides across portions of Hispaniola over the next seven days.
During the past seven days, an overall reduction in rainfall has been observed across Hispaniola. However, frontal boundaries over the past forty eight hours have brought heavy (> 50 mm) rainfall across southern Haiti and western Dominican Republic. Across eastern Dominican Republic, rainfall was below-average during the past seven days; and it has helped to provide relief to oversaturation, which has resulted from frequent and intense rainfall during this month. Conversely, the observed increase in rainfall has generally eliminated thirty-day rainfall deficits over the southern departments of Haiti. For next week, frontal systems could remain during a few days over Hispaniola and bring heavy rainfall across many areas of the region. This, therefore, increases the potential for flooding and landslides over the eastern half of Haiti and neighboring west central and northern Dominican Republic.
