Kalain Ho­sein

Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains un­der an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert (Yel­low Lev­el) with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) warn­ing the worst is still yet to come.

 
In their alert up­date is­sued at 10:13 AM Wednes­day, the Met Of­fice down­grad­ed the sever­i­ty of im­pacts to mod­er­ate, but the cer­tain­ty of the ad­verse weath­er event moved from pos­si­ble to ob­served.

 
They ex­plained, “Show­ers and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms as­so­ci­at­ed with an ac­tive Trop­i­cal Waves con­tin­ue to af­fect Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters. While the in­ten­si­ty of the weath­er will fluc­tu­ate, an in­crease in ac­tiv­i­ty is ex­pect­ed overnight Wednes­day in­to Thurs­day morn­ing in some ar­eas with rain­fall be­ing heavy/ tor­ren­tial at times. The sys­tem has a high po­ten­tial (70%) for fur­ther de­vel­op­ment over the next two days”

 
Trinidad and To­ba­go may see rain­fall ac­cu­mu­la­tions of 75 – 125 mm in some ar­eas and gusty winds in ex­cess of 70 kilo­me­ters per hour in the vicin­i­ty of thun­der­storms. The TTMS added that street or flash flood events and land­slips are like­ly in ar­eas of heavy down­pours. “Im­pacts can in­clude larg­er than nor­mal waves and chop­py seas in the vicin­i­ty of gusts. Trees, tree branch­es and loose ob­jects can be dis­placed dur­ing strong winds. Flood­ing and land­slips can lead to in­fra­struc­ture dam­age in ar­eas so prone.”

 
For a mod­er­ate Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, there is the po­ten­tial for pos­si­ble in­juries, where be­hav­ioral changes are re­quired to en­sure safe­ty. There may be mi­nor dam­age to prop­er­ty, with in­come-earn­ing tem­porar­i­ly dis­rupt­ed and a cou­ple of com­mu­ni­ties af­fect­ed.

 
Heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms have af­fect­ed parts of To­ba­go and north­east­ern Trinidad since mid­night. In To­ba­go, street flood­ing was re­port­ed in Bon Ac­cord. The To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency re­port­ed a fall­en tree com­plete­ly block­ing Bloody Bay Link Road in Rox­bor­ough, in the vicin­i­ty of Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary School. Ac­cord­ing to TEMA, the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties have been no­ti­fied. Crown Point al­so record­ed a wind gust of 50 kilo­me­ters per hour on Wednes­day morn­ing, as­so­ci­at­ed with a heavy thun­der­storm.