Thank you NASA.

This satellite picture off of the NASA web page is the only reliable weather image that covers the interior of Guyana. We are currently responding to a call from the Ministry of Health to another medical emergency in these marginal conditions. One can only hope that US federal budget cuts don't affect this department. All RAM medical flights in southern Guyana are conducted without any official weather information, without any radar (nation wide), and with no fuel or aircraft maintenance facilities.

This type of technical information is actually a great piece of US foreign policy as operators throughout the Caribbean and Northern S. America can and do access these satellite images where nothing else is available.

Any readers with contacts in that agency can pass on our appreciation. Check out the link here.