 The Caribbean is normally associated with sunshine, not rain |
Islands in the Caribbean bidding to host World Cup matches in 2007 have been asked to submit documents charting 10-year weather patterns. The International Cricket Council may also elect to bring the World Cup forward from its expected slot from late March into May.
Rain has wrecked England's one-day series in the West Indies.
And organisers are desperate to avoid a similar calamity when cricket's showpiece tournament hits the region.
ICC spokesman Jon Long told BBC Sport: "There is a quarterly board meeting of the 2007 World Cup organising committee.
"It's possible that dates will be on the agenda but no decision has yet been made about which months the tournament will take place in."
The request for 10-year weather patterns was not a recent mandate, he added.
"It is part of the tender document that all the bidding islands have to provide," he said.
The rains that have swept through the West Indies in recent weeks have come much earlier than the typical tropical wet season.
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