Grenada & Carriacou / Weather

Grenada has a fairly typical climate for the Windward Islands, which is sunny much of the time, but which can see sudden and extremely heavy showers. There is one rainy season, from July to November, amidst which there are dry spells or Petits Carèmes. It is only rarely that a depression will spin off weather systems farther north, covering the whole area with a blanket of grey. They move on after a couple of days. 

Grenada is generally thought to be outside the hurricane belt and is in fact visited only very rarely. A notable exception was Hurricane Ivan, which devastated the island in September 2004. The season runs from July to October. 

As lower-lying islands, Carriacou and Petite Martinique tend to have a drier and hotter climate.