WILLEMSTAD - 2018 may have brought a lot of rain, according to the Meteorological Department no more or less than normal in the past 30 years.

However, the months of February and October were wetter than normal. On an annual basis there was a total of more than five hundred millimeters, 300 fewer than in the Netherlands. 1 millimeter of rain corresponds exactly to 1 liter of water per square meter.

At Hato, almost 600 mm fell last year.