“…Winds and rainfall are sensitive to the arrival of oscillations such as easterly waves, with periods of 7 days, and cold fronts, coming from North America and crossing the Caribbean towards the East in about 10 to 14 days generating precipitation and rising wind stress on its way [Andrade et al, 2013, Alvarez-León et al, 1995. Large-scale signals such as the Madden-Julian Oscillation have longer periods (40 to 50 days) and have been detected in sea surface temperature and in rainfall records in Santa Marta, Colombia, at a latitude above 11 and Molares, 2003, Andrade et al, 2013. Moreover, there is also a strong interannual variability associated with ENSO that affects both Atlantic and Caribbean coastal areas.…”