An OR­ANGE Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert, as well as a YEL­LOW Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert re­main in ef­fect to­day, for Trinidad and To­ba­go, the most re­cent ad­vi­sories from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) state.

The River­ine Flood Alert-OR­ANGE which main­ly cov­ers rivers in the Ca­roni Riv­er Basin in Trinidad re­mains in ef­fect un­til 6:00 pm to­day.

This Met Ser­vice ad­vi­so­ry, is­sued at 6:30 pm on Wednes­day, states:

“Af­ter con­tin­ued rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty, the Manuel Con­go Riv­er and the Ca­roni Riv­er near the Tumpuna and El Car­men ar­eas have all reached crit­i­cal thresh­old lev­els (based on of­fi­cial da­ta) and may soon over­flow their banks as wa­ter lev­els con­tin­ue in an up­ward tra­jec­to­ry. While weath­er con­di­tions have set­tled over Trinidad cur­rent­ly, fur­ther rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty will like­ly con­tin­ue over the next 24 hours which will re­sult in fur­ther el­e­va­tion of these riv­er lev­els. As a re­sult, there con­tin­ues to be a se­vere risk to pub­lic safe­ty, liveli­hood and prop­er­ty in com­mu­ni­ties sur­round­ing these rivers.”

It adds: “Oth­er ma­jor rivers, in­clud­ing the North and South Oropouche, are ris­ing at rel­a­tive­ly low­er rates but are al­so be­ing mon­i­tored close­ly.”

Areas under the Orange Level Riverine Flooding Alert issued for the Caroni River Basin in Trinidad and rivers connected to it, in effect from 6:30 pm June 11, 2025, to 4:00 pm on Thursday (June 12). Image courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS),

Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service

Per­sons liv­ing in these ar­eas MUST do the fol­low­ing:

● Fi­nal­ize prepa­ra­tions to pro­tect lives, liveli­hoods and prop­er­ty.

● Ac­ti­vate your safe­ty plan.

● Pro­tect im­por­tant as­sets and doc­u­ments.

● Do not take un­nec­es­sary risks.

● Fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

● Mon­i­tor of­fi­cial sources for in­for­ma­tion, name­ly www.metof­fice.gov.tt/ and www.odpm.gov.tt

Both Trinidad, To­ba­go and their sur­round­ing wa­ters re­main un­der an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert-YEL­LOW, which was ac­ti­vat­ed at 2:00 am on Tues­day. The Met Ser­vice says it may be lift­ed as ear­ly as 4:00 pm to­day, Thurs­day, con­di­tions per­mit­ting.

Areas under the Yellow Level Adverse Weather Alert issued for Trinidad and Tobago, in effect from 2:00 am June 10, 2025, to 4:00 pm on Thursday (June 12). Image courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS),

Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service

The most re­cent ad­vi­so­ry is­sued ear­li­er this morn­ing states:

“Oc­ca­sion­al show­ers and pe­ri­ods of rain are still ex­pect­ed dur­ing the day to­day as well as a medi­um (60%) chance for pe­ri­od­ic heavy show­ers and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms. There is an in­creased risk of street flood­ing and land­slides/land­slips, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ar­eas with sat­u­rat­ed soils. In the event of heavy rain­fall, small­er wa­ter­cours­es may rise rapid­ly and over­top in some ar­eas. Winds may be­come gusty in the vicin­i­ty of heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms. These winds may fur­ther ag­i­tate sea con­di­tions, dis­place loose out­door items and even top­ple un­sta­ble trees.”

In ad­di­tion to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing of­fi­cial sources for the lat­est weath­er up­dates, mem­bers of the pub­lic on both is­lands MUST take all nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to mit­i­gate po­ten­tial im­pacts, in­clud­ing se­cur­ing loose out­door ob­jects..

The Met Ser­vice strong­ly ad­vis­es peo­ple liv­ing in flood and land­slide prone ar­eas to re­main alert, take pre­cau­tions where nec­es­sary and mon­i­tor of­fi­cial up­dates.

Al­so, mo­torists and res­i­dents in flood-prone ar­eas MUST AVOID flood­ed ar­eas and ex­er­cise cau­tion.