A new trop­i­cal storm has formed—Trop­i­cal Storm Josephine—and at present, is pos­ing NO DI­RECT THREAT to Trinidad and To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

The Met Ser­vice ad­vis­es in a news re­lease, that at 11:00 am to­day, Thurs­day 13th Au­gust 2020, the cen­tre of Trop­i­cal Storm Josephine was lo­cat­ed near lat­i­tude 13.7 N, lon­gi­tude 49.2W or about 1565 km east-south­east of the Lee­ward Is­lands.

The sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to strength­en dur­ing the next 48 hours, and fore­cast­ers will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor its ac­tiv­i­ty close­ly.

The TTMS notes that TS Josephine is mov­ing to­ward the west-north­west at 24 km/h, and this gen­er­al mo­tion is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue for the next few days. Max­i­mum sus­tained winds are near 75 km/h with high­er gusts.

TTMS fore­cast­ers ex­plain that on its pro­ject­ed track, this sys­tem is not ex­pect­ed to pose any di­rect threat to Trinidad and To­ba­go, or Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies.