BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)\u2014 The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) says it is hoping that coral reefs can receive \u201cto some degree\u201d relief after the past coral bleaching season had been quite hard on the region due to prolonged heat stress within the last few months.<\/p>\n
In its latest and final issue of the Caribbean Coral Reef Watch bulletin for 2020, the CIMH’s Regional Climate Centre, noted that some coral\u00a0reefs in the\u00a0region suffered during the 2020\u00a0 bleaching season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWidespread\u00a0bleaching reported in Belize, and some in Barbados. There\u00a0is\u00a0now\u00a0no\u00a0thermal heat\u00a0stress\u00a0throughout\u00a0most of\u00a0the\u00a0Caribbean,\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0exception\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Southern Caribbean Sea\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0region of\u00a0the\u00a0Leeward Antilles. This region is currently under low-level thermal stress at the Watch alert level,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
But it noted that the four-month outlook indicates that coral bleaching heat stress should not affect corals reefs from January through April next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cCoral bleaching heat stress levels returned to no stress across most of the region with the exception of the Leeward Antilles where they are at Watch level, but are predicted to return to no stress across the entire Caribbean in five to eight weeks, persisting through April,\u201d the CIMH said in its Outlook for the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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