Over the past several days, Jamaicans have woken to a familiar but always unsettling reality: temperatures climbing into the 30s degrees Celsius as early as nine o’clock in the morning. What feels like an extended midday blaze is, according to regional climatologists, the first breath of a developing El Niño event that will likely bring hotter, drier conditions across the Caribbean through the remainder of 2026 and into 2027.

- May 01, 2026 12:29 PM | News