Many Jamaicans jumped for joy yesterday as heavy rains drenched sections of the country for the first time in months. But Jeffery Spooner, director of the Meteorological Service of Jamaica, said that is not enough to break the drought that the country has been experiencing.

Spooner said though he welcomed the rain, he was urging citizens to remain cautious.

"One shower does not break a drought. When we talk about drought it is classified comparing the rainfall for eight consecutive weeks," he said.

"We still stick with projections from the models that we are not expecting any amount of appreciable rainfall in the near future. I received a model run on Tuesday that looked at the August to September projection, and it still projected below-normal rainfall," he said.