Tobago faces drought as heat and unreliable rainfall squeeze T&T

Trinidad and To­ba­go could reach the end of the 2026 wet sea­son with less wa­ter in the ground than usu­al, as fore­cast­ers warn of in­creas­ing­ly un­re­li­able rain­fall, de­vel­op­ing drought con­di­tions and per­sis­tent heat that could put ad­di­tion­al pres­sure on farms and wa­ter sup­plies.

Cli­mate out­looks from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) and the Caribbean Cli­mate Out­look Fo­rum (Cari­COF) point in the same gen­er­al di­rec­tion: few­er rainy days and wet spells as the wet sea­son winds down, wors­en­ing dry­ness in To­ba­go and parts of Trinidad, and above-av­er­age tem­per­a­tures that can ac­cel­er­ate the loss of mois­ture from soil and wa­ter sources.

To­ba­go is emerg­ing as the main area of con­cern.