Ryan Ba­choo

Fifty-five com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad have a mod­er­ate­ly high­er than nor­mal flood po­ten­tial ac­cord­ing to the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

As the coun­try braces for the 2023 Wet Sea­son, the TTMS high­light­ed 125 com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go with the po­ten­tial for flood­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the Met Ser­vice, "The 2023 Wet Sea­son is fore­cast to have near-nor­mal rain­fall over­all, but sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties are un­der threat of flood­ing."

Over the next six months, the TTMS is fore­cast­ing ac­cu­mu­lat­ed rain­fall to­tals from 887 mil­lime­ters in most ar­eas of To­ba­go and ar­eas along the west coast of Trinidad. High­er rain­fall ac­cu­mu­la­tions near 2076 mil­lime­ters in north­east Trinidad, in the vicin­i­ty of San­gre Grande, Ve­ga De Oropouche, Plum Mi­tan, and en­vi­rons, are al­so fore­cast.

The Met Of­fice notes, “Over­all, flood risk po­ten­tial ex­ists across the whole wet sea­son. The ar­eas of great­est risk for flood­ing in­clude the Ca­roni, North Oropouche, and South Oropouche Riv­er basins. The lo­cal flood sea­son is like­ly to ex­pand as the sea­son pro­gress­es.”

Among the 55 com­mu­ni­ties set to ex­pe­ri­ence a mod­er­ate­ly high­er than nor­mal flood po­ten­tial is Port of Spain, St. He­le­na Vil­lage, Gas­par­il­lo, Pointe-a-Pierre, Basse Terre and Pe­nal Rock Road.

There are no com­mu­ni­ties in To­ba­go that have a mod­er­ate­ly high­er-than-nor­mal po­ten­tial for flood­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTMS, 53 com­mu­ni­ties have a slight­ly high­er than nor­mal flood po­ten­tial in Trinidad in­clud­ing Va­len­cia, San­gre Grande, El So­cor­ro, St Au­gus­tine, Ca­paro and Spring Vil­lage.