The Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert has now been ex­tend­ed and is ex­pect­ed to re­main in ef­fect un­til 10 am on De­cem­ber 20.

Pre­vi­ous­ly, the alert was ex­pect­ed to end at 6:00 PM to­day.

In a state­ment, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) said, "Pro­longed pe­ri­ods of rain­fall over To­ba­go have re­sult­ed in sev­er­al ar­eas be­ing af­fect­ed by land­slides, fall­en trees and lo­cal­ized flood­ing. Re­ports al­so in­di­cate that some rivers in To­ba­go are near­ing crit­i­cal lev­els due to de­bris block­age, in­creas­ing the risk of river­ine flood­ing."

The TTMS added that pe­ri­ods of rain­fall of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­ter­mit­tent­ly overnight with oc­ca­sion­al set­tled con­di­tions, how­ev­er, the risk of land­slides/land­slips re­mains high, par­tic­u­lar­ly along hilly ar­eas of Trinidad's North­ern Range and To­ba­go's Main Ridge.

The re­lease stat­ed to ex­pect the pos­si­bil­i­ty of ad­di­tion­al im­pacts in­clud­ing gusty winds, chop­py seas and street flood­ing in the vicin­i­ty of heavy down­pours.

The pub­lic is urged to mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and as­sess sur­round­ings be­fore ven­tur­ing out. In ad­di­tion, the Met Ser­vice cau­tions against dri­ving or wad­ing through flood wa­ters.