It has been al­most 12 hours of near-con­stant rain­fall across Trinidad. Street and flash flood­ing have af­fect­ed near­ly every area across the is­land, from Guayagua­yare to Pa­lo Seco to La Filette to Diego Mar­tin.

Flood­wa­ters con­tin­ue to rise across Pe­nal, Debe, Bar­rack­pore and Siparia with a num­ber of roads af­fect­ed on the west­ern side of the is­land. As rain­fall con­tin­ues, the high­est im­pact area is deep South­ern Trinidad, where high flood­wa­ters have ren­dered the Pe­nal Road im­pass­able. Flood­ing has al­so been re­port­ed in Ma­yaro along the Guayagua­yare Ma­yaro Road, with few ar­eas im­pass­able to small­er ve­hi­cles.

Across Cen­tral Trinidad, flood­ing has been re­port­ed as south as Clax­ton Bay and ex­tend­ing north and east to Cou­va, Freeport, Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, En­deav­our, Jern­ing­ham Junc­tion, Cunu­pia, Ed­ing­burgh 500, Ca­paro, Tabaqite, and Las Lo­mas.

In North­ern Trinidad, street and flash flood­ing has oc­curred in the east across Tu­na­puna, Arou­ca, O’Mera, San­gre Grande, Coalmine and ex­tend­ing west­ward to­wards El Soc­cor­ro, Mor­vant, Port of Spain, and Diego Mar­tin.

Land­slides have al­so been re­port­ed along the North Coast Road, Curepe, and Siparia.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice main­tains the Ad­verse Weath­er Alert (Yel­low Lev­el) for Trinidad as a very ac­tive In­tertrop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone af­fects the coun­try, pro­duc­ing wide­spread show­ers and thun­der­storms. Ac­cord­ing to the TTMS, “Street flood­ing and lo­cal­ized flood­ing will con­tin­ue. Land­slides and land­slips are pos­si­ble in ar­eas so prone. Small­er wa­ter­cours­es are near thresh­old ca­pac­i­ty, but ma­jor rivers con­tin­ue to be con­tained at this time.”

The alert asks the pub­lic to as­sess en­vi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions, not to wade or dri­ve through flood­wa­ters, mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions, and up­dates from of­fi­cial sources.

Ac­cord­ing to the Met Of­fice, the re­main­der of to­day is cloudy with rainy pe­ri­ods, and the iso­lat­ed thun­der­storm is fore­cast to be­come grad­u­al­ly set­tled by evening/night­time.

Re­porter: Kalain Ho­sein