New Boeraserie weather station to boost monitoring

Staffers of the Hydromet unit of the Agriculture Ministry examine a section of the new automatic weather station (AWS) at the Boeraserie Conservancy yesterday. (Photo by Anjuli Persaud)

The capacity of the Hydromet Department to provide real time weather information across the country has been boosted with the installation of an automatic weather station (AWS) at the Boeraserie Conservancy in Region Three.

The weather station, the third of ten to be installed this year at remote areas across the country, is being funded by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) based in Belize as part of that agency’s Integrated Observing Network within the Caribbean region. Similar weather stations have been unveiled at the Amerindian community of Moraikobai in the Mahaicony and at Orealla on the Corentyne River recently.

Speaking at a brief ceremony to mark the unveiling of the Boeraserie station yesterday afternoon, Executive Director of the CCCC Dr Kenrick Leslie told the small gathering that the equipment will