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Friday, February 28, 2025

Met Service activates Yellow Level Hazardous Seas Alert

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38 days ago
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Image courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS).

Image courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS).

A Yel­low Lev­el Haz­ardous Seas Alert cur­rent­ly is in ef­fect for north­ern and east­ern ex­posed coastal ar­eas, in­clud­ing off­shore re­gions of both Trinidad and To­ba­go, and will re­main so un­til 6:00 pm on Thurs­day 23 Jan­u­ary 2025.

An ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) notes that, “The sea state along the north­ern and east­ern ex­posed coastal ar­eas, in­clud­ing off­shore re­gions, have de­te­ri­o­rat­ed to rough con­di­tions, with wave heights reach­ing up to—and in ex­cess of—3.0 me­tres.”

The Met Ser­vice ex­plains: “This is due to rel­a­tive­ly strong winds, which have ag­i­tat­ed the sea sur­face, lead­ing to large waves and po­ten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous sea con­di­tions.”

“There is an in­creased risk of strong rip cur­rents, pos­ing a se­ri­ous haz­ard to swim­mers and beach­go­ers,” the TTMS ad­vi­so­ry warns.

It not­ed: “Rip cur­rents can be life-threat­en­ing even for ex­pe­ri­enced swim­mers. Ag­i­tat­ed seas are like­ly to be par­tic­u­lar­ly per­ilous for off­shore ac­tiv­i­ties. This in­cludes fish­ing and oth­er small craft ma­rine in­ter­ests.”

The Met Ser­vice is ad­vis­ing all ma­rine in­ter­ests to ex­er­cise ex­treme cau­tion.

Beach­go­ers are urged to heed the in­struc­tions of life­guards and those in au­thor­i­ty.

The pub­lic is en­cour­aged to mon­i­tor of­fi­cial weath­er and ma­rine up­dates at www.metof­fice.gov.tt/fore­cast


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