Situation Reports

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Hurricane conditions are expected across portions of Puerto Rico on Sunday, and are possible across the U.S. Virgin Islands tonight. Tropical storm conditions are now spreading westward across the U.S. and British Virgin islands and will spread across Puerto Rico this evening and tonight. Tropical storm conditions will reach the Dominican Republic by late Sunday.

Heavy rains from Fiona will spread west to the British and U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today, the Dominican Republic Sunday, and the Turks and Caicos Monday night. These rainfall amounts are expected to produce life-threatening flash floods and urban flooding, along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain, especially across portions of  Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Read more: SITUATION REPORT # 1 - TROPICAL STORM FIONA

SITUATION OVERVIEW:

• A number of communities were declared disaster areas by the Government of Suriname on 25th May after experiencing widespread flooding which began in March 2022
• The districts affected were Brokopondo, Sipaliwini, Marowijne, Para, Saramacca, Coronie and Nickerie, which are all located in the interior and Southern sections of the country.
• Following the government’s declaration on May 25th, an Inter-Ministerial Crisis Team was set up to deal with the crisis and provide assistance to the affected families. The team comprises six working groups: Shelter, Security, Health, Finance, Media and Agriculture.
• The outlook by MET officials is for above-normal rainfall between the months of June to August 2022 and this has created major concern about continued flooding, particularly in the already affected communities.
• Rising water due to heavy rainfall in Upper Suriname (on the southern side of the Afobaka Lake) has resulted in a number of villages in the area starting to flood.

Read more: SITUATION REPORT #3 - SURINAME FLOODING

SITUATION OVERVIEW
As a result of heavy rain showers in the interior and southern sections of Suriname, various areas, in particular the Districts of Brokopondo, Sipaliwini, Marowijne, Para, Saramanna, Coronie and Nickerie
have been severely impacted by flooding, and some are still under water. The Government of Suriname has therefore, via the OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. 55 OF THE REPUBLIC OF SURINAME,
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE of 25 May 2022 P.B. no. 12/2022, declared the affected areas in the districts of Brokopondo, Sipaliwini, Marowijne, Para, Saramacca, Coronie and Nickerie to be disaster
areas.

Read more: SITUATION REPORT #2 - SURINAME FLOODING

HIGHLIGHTS:
● Due to heavy rainfall in the interior and southern sections of Suriname, the President declared the districts of Brokopondo, Sipaliwini, Marowijne, Para, Saramacca, Coronie and Nickerie disaster
   areas on Wednesday 25 May, 2022.
● The weather forecast indicates there is a high risk of further flooding due to continuing moderate to intense rainfall from ITCZ activity, that may be enhanced by a stationary upper level trough in the
   Atlantic Ocean.
● The National Coordination Centre for Disaster Management (NCCR), Suriname has mounted a national response to the emergency and updated CDEMA and the CDPG on the situation.

Read more: SITUATION REPORT #1 - SURINAME FLOODING