Monitoring Agricultural Drought in the West Indies - Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - page 152

% yield deviation
from 1950-99 Stress 1 Stress 2 Stress 3 Stress 4

Year average yield (% or normal rainfall) (% of normal rainfall) (% of normal min. temp) (% of normal rainfall) Prevailing conditions

1951 31 54%; 1950

(March-May, July)

27%; 1951
(Jan.-March)

1950-51 La Ni na

1952 30 58%; 1951 (June,

Sept., Oct.)

48%;
Nov. '51-Feb. '52

1951-52 El Ni no,
Hurrican
Charlie-Aug. 51

1977 23 64%; 1976

(Apr.-Oct.)

43%;
Nov. '76-March '77

100.6%;
Nov. '76-March '87

1976-77 El Ni no

1987 21 62%; 1986 (May,

July-Oct.)

59%;
Nov. '86-March '87

102.8%;
Jan. '87-March '87

1986-87 El Ni no,
Flood rains in June
86

1989 20 64%; 1988 (June,

Aug., Oct.)

61%;
Nov. '88-Jan. '89

1987-88 El Ni no,
Hurricane
Gilbert-Sept. 88

1992 19 46%; 1991

(June-Oct.)

61%;
Dec. '91-Feb. '92

102.8%;
Nov. '91-March '92

1991-92 El Ni no

1967 13 268%; 1966 (May,

June)

1965-66 El Nin no

1983 11 49%; 1982 (June,

Aug.-Dec.)

100.7%;
Nov. '82-Dec. '82

1982-83 El Ni no

1991 10 63%; 1990 (May,

June, Aug. Sept.)

51%;
Dec. '90-Apr. '91

104.4%;
Nov. '90-March '91

1990-92 El Ni no

1986 7 67%; 1985 (March-

July, Sept. Oct.)

1984-85 La Ni na