OFFICIALS FROM the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) have issued warnings to all the armchair meteorologists in Barbados and across the region.
They did this as social media users spent the last few days posting satellite images from many weather sites with their own analysis mixed with that of experts.
However, chief meteorologist with the CIMH, Kathy-Ann Caesar, said that those images were usually hours old and did not reflect the up-to-date weather situation.
“Sometimes a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous,” she told a Caribbean link-up at the Caribbean Media Corporation headquarters on Harbour Road yesterday afternoon in the wake of the upgrade of the weather system to Tropical Storm Matthew. (HLE)
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