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Nine days before today’s start of the hurricane season, subtropical storm Ana became its first named storm.For the seventh straight year, the Atlantic Hurricane season has begun to churn out cyclones ahead of the official June 1 date.The system was the first of what hurricane forecasters, including the respected Colorado State University, predict will be an “above-normal” season. Over the next six months, we can expect 17 named storms and eight hurricanes, with four of those predicted to be major storms.Early storms are increasingly becoming the norm, so much so that the National Hurricane Center said it would start issuing its weather updates from mid-May rather than June 1.
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First COVID19, now volcano ash threatens businesses
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By Kareem Smith
As if three consecutive months of COVID-19 shutdowns weren’t bad enough, the outlook for business has become even more bleak as uncertainty looms following numerous violent eruptions at the La Soufriére Volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
President of the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) Edward Clarke noted that while the eruption impact may seem relatively minor, it is unfolding as scores of businesses are preparing to re-open, some for the first time after months of dormancy.
The vast majority of this country’s non-essential enterprises remained close after the weekend as Barbadians embarked upon a massive clean-up of dense ash that has been raining down for the last 72-hours.