Services Offered
The Cayman Islands National Weather Service, provides a wide range of services to Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands of Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. These services include.
Weather Observing
The monitoring and reporting of meteorological conditions taken from the Owen Roberts and Charles Kirkconnell International Airports as well as the use of automatic weather stations and rain gauges around the Cayman Islands.
Weather Forecasting
The production and issuing of meteorological forecasts for the Cayman area.
Radar
The maintenance and calibration of the Kearney Gomez Doppler Weather Radar as well as the provision of current radar images to the public and education on what the radar shows and how it can be used.
Upper Air Monitoring Station
The releasing of weather balloons to collect vital data for the input into numerical weather prediction models.
Climatology
Provision on either a public or "user pays" basis, of a range of user sector-specific operational meteorological services, through the mass media and other channels, to such major user groups as agriculture, shipping, aviation, construction etc.