Week 50 At The Source

The relief in precipitation was certainly short-lived and Week 50 takes honors with the heaviest rainfall recorded during 2011 at 335.4 mm (13.2 in) – more than ten times the precipitation recorded the prior week. Amazing that it can go from one extreme to the other in a matter of days. The effects of the previously announced low pressure system seriously affected the whole country during week 50, causing flooding in several parts of the northern, central and southern Pacific regions. On the Caribbean side, the main effect was intense cloud cover, very high humidity, low soil temperatures and very heavy rainfall. Fortunately we didn’t have any flooding in our farms but we can almost surely predict a new NDF event taking place in this week 50. The normal and daily operations of planting, harvesting and all the different tasks performed in a pineapple plantation have suffered and we have had a bear of a time staying on schedule.