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Dec 02, 2008 News
Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation, Terrence Sutherland, has announced that the Doppler radar tower is currently entering its completion stages, and is expected to be installed and tested in January and February.
Sutherland made the remarks at the 48th Meeting of the Caribbean Meteorological Council of Ministers, held at the International Conference Centre yesterday.
He explained that the network will allow the Caribbean region to embark on a new and much improved severe warning alert, which would give them the ability to remit the effects of some natural disasters, thus protecting the region.
It was noted that the Doppler radar in Trinidad and in Barbados have already been completed and is in working order, while the radar in Belize is under test and should be completed some time this month.
Guyana is now the last country to implement the system. The Doppler radar tower had gone through some trying times. When construction commenced at the first location, it had to be removed because the radar was being constructed at the wrong site.
Earlier in the year, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud had expressed optimism that the project will be completed in 2009.
“We hope to have the radar up and running by February. I don’t envisage that we will have any other major setback that will prevent us from having that piece of technology… that vital piece of resource in making the work of the Hydromet Department much more accurate and relevant to our needs,” Minister Persaud had noted.
The agreement that was signed with the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation had stated that the tower would be completed and handed over in November.
Upon completion, the Doppler radar will be used to provide continuous real-time radar surveillance up to 400 kilometres out, and will help forecasters define with greater accuracy the areas where severe weather is likely to form, identify the characteristic patterns indicating a high probability of severe thunderstorms, and improve forecasting time, intensity and location of heavy precipitation.
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