As Winnie the Pooh once said… “tut, tut, it looks like rain!” This weekend it looks like we can expect some rain in the Eastern region of the Dominican Republic.
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Wondering why it’s raining? There’s a Tropical Wave overhead!
This morning we woke to another bright, sunny and beautiful day in Casa de Campo… and then it started to rain. Just a brief shower? Sadly not – there’s a “Tropical Wave” hovering over the Dominican Republic right now! Fortunately a “tropical wave” is the most insignificant and unthreatening of all the types of tropical […]
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Tropical Depression #7 becomes Tropical Wave and is already nearly gone
Great news my friends! In case you haven’t already noticed, Tropical Depression #7, originally predicted to become Tropical Storm Gordon with a projected path for the Dominican Republic, dissipated into nothing more sinister than a “Tropical Wave” on Saturday morning (August 11th) and is now passing by to the South of the Dominican Republic.
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Weather update: A lovely Tropical Wave brings more rain!
In yesterday afternoon’s “weather update” I spotted something unpleasant lurking on the satellite image, which although completely ignored by all my favorite weather websites, I predicted it would bring us (in the Dominican Republic) rain – and I was right, it is indeed raining! So what’s going on? And what can we expect over the […]
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Grey grumbling skys….a Tropical Wave and a Tropical Cyclone
Well well well, following an unexpectedly hot and sunny month of July, it would seem that the rainy “Hurricane Season” has now arrived to the Dominican Republic – in the form of a Tropical Wave which is now hovering over us with a “low pressure system”, predicted to become a Tropical Cyclone (most likely a […]
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Forget Ophelia – she’s going NORTH!
So far this Hurricane Season, the Dominican Republic has been very lucky – every Tropical Storm and Hurricane which looked to be heading our way have gone North of the island. And now it looks like Tropical Storm Ophelia is predicted to go the same way! Wooohooo!
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Tropical Weather Update: UH OH! It looks like rain!
UPDATE, 2.30pm Tuesday 6th September The “Tropical Wave” now has a 90% chance of developing into a Tropical Cyclone…….see below for a full update With Hurricane Katia whirring around above us in the Northern Atlantic ocean, causing impressive waves and a nasty storm surge on the Northern side of the Dominican Republic – it’s time […]