The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an­oth­er Yel­low Lev­el Alert warn­ing of an in­creased like­li­hood of ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions over the next 24 hours. A high (80%) chance of in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms is fore­cast over Trinidad, par­tic­u­lar­ly af­fect­ing south­ern and cen­tral ar­eas.

These re­gions have al­ready ex­pe­ri­enced sat­u­ra­tion due to re­cent rain­fall.

To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to see a medi­um (60%) chance of iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers or thun­der­storms. How­ev­er, the pres­ence of high­er con­cen­tra­tions of Sa­ha­ran dust is ex­pect­ed to lim­it wide­spread rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty on the is­land.

Both is­lands will con­tin­ue to ex­pe­ri­ence sig­nif­i­cant lev­els of Sa­ha­ran dust, which may re­duce vis­i­bil­i­ty and air qual­i­ty at times. The In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ) is grad­u­al­ly shift­ing north­ward and is pro­ject­ed to in­ten­si­fy the cur­rent un­set­tled weath­er, con­tribut­ing to in­creased rain­fall and thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty overnight in­to to­mor­row.

Au­thor­i­ties are warn­ing of a height­ened risk of land­slides and land­slips in vul­ner­a­ble ar­eas. Ad­di­tion­al po­ten­tial im­pacts in­clude street or flash flood­ing, lo­cal­ized pond­ing, and gusty winds near heavy down­pours, which may al­so lead to rough sea con­di­tions.

Res­i­dents are ad­vised to re­main alert and ex­er­cise cau­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ar­eas prone to flood­ing or land­slides. 

The pub­lic is urged to as­sess weath­er con­di­tions be­fore trav­el­ling, avoid flood wa­ters, and take nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to re­duce po­ten­tial risks.

Of­fi­cials are en­cour­ag­ing all cit­i­zens to fol­low of­fi­cial in­struc­tions and mon­i­tor on­go­ing weath­er up­dates via the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice at www.metof­fice.gov.tt