BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) Wednesday warned of a potentially increased Atlantic Hurricane Season activity in the northern Caribbean during the three-month period leading up to the month of August.

In the latest publication of its Caribbean Climate Outlooks, CariCOF said that the period June to  August marks the first half of the Caribbean Wet Season, the Atlantic Hurricane Season, as well as the build up to the peak of the Caribbean Heat Season.

It said that an El Niño event, a naturally occurring climate phenomenon characterised by unusually warm ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, is developing and strengthening.