Fifty Heat Wave Days Forecasted Over Next Three Months  

Belize has been experiencing some extremely hot days over the last few weeks. In fact, two all-time heat records were broken only last week. The National Meteorological Service of Belize warns that above seasonal temperatures are expected to continue across the county over the next few months, with as many as fifty heat wave days expected inland. Chief Meteorologist Ronald Gordon told us more.

 

Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist, National Meteorological Service

“As we reported last week we had two stations in this country that broke all time records on the second of, or it was the third, last week Wednesday. We had a record here at the airport which we never experienced before, which is a hundred degrees Fahrenheit and ninety-nine point nine to be exact. That is an all-time record for this station. We had another record in Melinda. I cannot recall the exact figure but that was also a record that was broken an all-time record on that same day. So it shows you that that day was extremely hot across the country and if that is any indication of what is going to happen in the peak of the dry season then we can expect it to be a record hot year for us this particular heat season. To put it precisely one of the things that is favoring that excessive heat is the very warm ocean temperatures. We know that the air is modified by the oceans. So, certainly given the fact that we have very warm ocean temperatures mean we are going to have very warm atmospheric temperatures near the surface.”