KALAIN HO­SEIN

Me­te­o­rol­o­gist/Re­porter

kalain.ho­sein@guardian.co.tt

Heavy morn­ing show­ers and thun­der­storms have led to street and flash flood­ing across Port of Spain and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

Flood­ing in low­er Port of Spain, at low­er Rich­mond Street, and City Gate, South Quay, has left road­ways tem­porar­i­ly im­pass­able.

Flood­ing has al­so oc­curred across parts of Champ Fleurs, Mount Lam­bert, San Juan, El So­cor­ro, Mor­vant, Barataria, La­van­tille, St. Ann’s, and Diego Mar­tin.

While there are no alerts, watch­es, or warn­ings from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice at this time, in their 10:00 AM fore­cast, they warned, “Gusty winds and street/flash flood­ing can oc­cur near heavy show­ers or thun­der­storms.”

This weath­er is as­so­ci­at­ed with the In­tertrop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone lift­ing across Trinidad and To­ba­go ahead of an ap­proach­ing trop­i­cal wave, which is set to move across the coun­try overnight through to­mor­row.

Mean­while, the TTPS OCC has con­firmed (via CCTV) flood­ing in the fol­low­ing ar­eas of Port of Spain, to­day:

- In­de­pen­dence Square North & Rich­mond Street

- George Street & Queen Street

- Char­lotte Street & Prince Street

- In­de­pen­dence Square & Hen­ry Street

- Dun­don­ald Street and New Street

- La­dy Young Road and St. Anns Round­about

- Dun­don­ald Street and Ox­ford Street

- Wright­son Road and the Light­house

- South Quay and Cha­con Street

- PoS Mar­ket in vicin­i­ty of PBR

- City Gate

- Wright­son Road and Sackville Street

- Wright­son Road and Hamil­ton Hold­er Street

- In­de­pen­dence Square and St Vin­cent Street.