The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

ATBC 2008 - Climate

ATBC

Weather and Climate in Suriname

Suriname has a tropical humid climate with dry and rainy seasons. The short rainy season in December and January, the long rainy season from April to July. Suriname lies outside the hurricane zone and the most extreme wheather condition is the "sibibusi" (which means forest broom), a heavy rainshower. Rainfall regime at Paramaribo

Climate diagram of Suriname (pdf 0.6 M)

Weather and Climate in Suriname
Current weather condition of Suriname

 

Rainforest at Brownsberg Natural Park
Rainforest at Brownsberg Natural Park