Tropical Storm Bret was the third named tropical cyclone of the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 22 and 23 June, Bret passed over Barbados and the Windward Islands.Tropical-storm-force winds spread over Barbados, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. At the time of writing this report, Bret was about to pass north of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, and was expected to dissipate within a few hours.

This event briefing is designed to review the modelled losses due to wind and storm surge calculated by CCRIF’s models for affected CCRIF member countries, to be analyzed with respect to members’ Tropical Cyclone policies. Barbados, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were the only CCRIF member countries for which the CCRIF loss model for wind and storm surge produced government losses due to Tropical Cyclone Bret. A