DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Abinader administration recently announced millions have been spent for a modern radar (C-Band Solid-State Dual-Polarization Doppler Radar) installed at Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) to enhance private aviation security and the safety of those in the Greater Santo Domingo and the southcentral region.

Yes, Santo Domingo now has its own weather radar, but apparently, the people at the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) do not have the training to read the data and alert the population in a timely way. There is a difference between scattered rains and intense downpours that call for special preventive actions. The details in the data provided by the radar enable experienced weather forecasters to tell the difference.

On 7 April 2026, the National Meteorological Institute (Indomet) issued its usual daily weather forecast indicating that a trough would be moving our...