After a year of dealing with the effects of COVID, resource-strapped communities and governments find themselves with limited capacities to respond to and recover from another crisis, leaving already vulnerable populations more exposed to a major storm impact. Given the unprecedent socioeconomic impact of the pandemic, emergency response plans must ensure that humanitarian assistance has a positive multiplier effect on local economies and livelihoods and creates synergies with early recovery and development activities that complement existing multi-sectoral COVID response plans in the region.
Humanitarian access to crisis-affected people must be guaranteed and humanitarian organizations need to take all necessary precautions to reduce COVID health risks. Unhindered humanitarian access to affected States is critical to ensuring that crisis-affected people receive the lifesaving assistance and protection they urgently need.
In the context of COVID, protocols and procedures must be established at both the national and regional level to facilitate the rapid mobilization of humanitarian personnel and immediate relief supplies to address pressing humanitarian needs in emergency situations. Humanitarian operations must ensure alignment, complementarity and coordination with ongoing national and regional response efforts in the fight against COVID Likewise, humanitarian organizations must assure that COVID prevention measures are integrated into operational planning and response modalities to mitigate the potential health risks for affected populations.
While OCHA ROLAC, other UN agencies, funds and programmes and international humanitarian organizations remain prepared to respond to emergencies in the Caribbean, international surge capacity and remote support will largely depend on national policies on the acceptance of international assistance in the context of the pandemic.
Vaccination and protection of both humanitarian personnel and affected people is vital to mitigating health risks and ensuring unrestricted humanitarian access to crisis-affected communities.
While the Caribbean has effectively rolled out public health measures to combat the COVID pandemic, vaccine hesitancy and skepticism stands in the way of the region achieving herd immunity, not only jeopardizing the recovery of its tourism-dependent economies but also generating additional risks during the hurricane season.
Targeted communications and public education programmes are required to motivate people to get vaccinated and more equitable access to vaccines is urgently needed.
Likewise, humanitarian organizations must ensure the protection of personnel deployed in response to emergencies in order to better protect the affected people they are assisting.
Montserrat, located in the West Indies, is normally not in the path of hurricanes in July. Barbados is rarely influenced by hurricanes as they tend to pass to the north closer to Guadeloupe and Dominica, this is true even for October. If you're planning a trip to Barbados, Barbados gets hit by hurricanes once every 20 years approximately. I would also advise that either you or your travel agent arrange a hurricane guarantee for every stage of your trip.
In the event of a hurricane, you may be able to obtain free accommodation and travel to cover expenses if you have a hurricane guarantee. Also, please make sure that the company you plan to use for obtaining hurricane guarantees is trustworthy. There is now considerable scientific consensus showing that there are less hurricanes forming in the Caribbean region but those that do form are becoming more dangerous. So you must plan your trip carefully so as to minimise any potential safety issues.
So why is October the flavour of the month for hurricanes in the Caribbean? During this time, rainfall increases due to the arrival of the monsoon. All the necessary ingredients are there in the atmospheric soup for a hurricane to form.
There are of course many other factors that contribute to a hurricanes formation, but I will discuss this on another page in the future. I have deliberately avoided discussing the Caribbean weather on this page.
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Table 1. Progress of the average Atlantic season Date upon which the following number of events would normally have occurred. Table 2. Progress of the average eastern Pacific season These charts show the amount of tropical cyclone activity, in terms of named storms and hurricanes, that occurs in the Atlantic and east Pacific basins on each calendar day between May 1 and December Specifically, they show the number of hurricanes yellow area , and combined named storms and hurricanes red area that occur on each calendar day over a year period.
The data have been smoothed using a 5-day running average centered on each calendar day. For the Atlantic basin the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico , the chart is based on data from the year period from to starting at the beginning of the aircraft reconnaissance era but normalized to years. The official hurricane season for the Atlantic basin is from June 1 to November 30, but tropical cyclone activity sometimes occurs before and after these dates, respectively.
The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is September 10, with most activity occurring between mid-August and mid-October. For the eastern Pacific basin, the analyses are based on data from the year period from to starting when there was reliable satellite imagery but also normalized to years. The official hurricane season for the eastern Pacific basin is from May 15 to November 30, but tropical cyclones occasionally occur before and after these dates, respectively.
A peak in activity is noted in late August, but this peak is less pronounced than the peak in Atlantic activity. Relatively high levels of activity in the eastern Pacific tend to be spread out over a longer portion of the season than in the Atlantic, with most tropical cyclones occurring between late June and early October.
The figures below show the points of tropical cyclone genesis by day periods during the hurricane season.
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