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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Storm alerts in Barbados, Dominica as Bret approaches

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Kalain Hosein
724 days ago
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This GeoColor satellite image taken Tuesday and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Bret as it chugged toward the eastern Caribbean.

This GeoColor satellite image taken Tuesday and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Bret as it chugged toward the eastern Caribbean.

AP

Al­though it pos­es no di­rect threat to Trinidad and To­ba­go, all eyes are on Trop­i­cal Storm Bret, which was lo­cat­ed just over 1,300 kilo­me­tres east of To­ba­go yes­ter­day evening. Trop­i­cal storm watch­es have been is­sued for Bar­ba­dos and Do­mini­ca, where trop­i­cal storm con­di­tions are pos­si­ble on Thurs­day.

Ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre (NHC), yes­ter­day, Bret moved quick­ly west near 30 KM/H, and this gen­er­al mo­tion is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue through the next sev­er­al days. The NHC said, “On the fore­cast track, the cen­tre of Bret is ex­pect­ed to move across por­tions of the Less­er An­tilles Thurs­day af­ter­noon and Thurs­day night, and then move across the east­ern Caribbean Sea on Fri­day.”

Trop­i­cal Storm Bret strength­ened over a 24-hour pe­ri­ods, with max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 75 KM/H and high­er gusts. The NHC fore­casts ad­di­tion­al strength­en­ing Wednes­day, and Bret will re­main a trop­i­cal storm when it reach­es the cen­tral Less­er An­tilles by Thurs­day in­to Thurs­day night. Bret re­mains a small trop­i­cal storm with trop­i­cal storm-force winds ex­tend­ing 75 kilo­me­tres out­ward from the cen­tre.

The NHC said, “Bret is fore­cast to ap­proach the Less­er An­tilles through Thurs­day morn­ing and then move across the is­lands Thurs­day af­ter­noon and Thurs­day night as a trop­i­cal storm, bring­ing a risk of flood­ing from heavy rain­fall, strong winds, and dan­ger­ous waves along the coast.”

At the time of the storm’s pas­sage across the Less­er An­tilles, the NHC is fore­cast­ing Bret to have sus­tained winds up to 100 KM/H and gusts to 120 KM/H. Through Sat­ur­day morn­ing, storm to­tal rain­fall amounts of four to six inch­es (100-150 mm) with max­i­mum amounts of 10 inch­es (250 mm) are pos­si­ble across por­tions of the Less­er An­tilles from Guade­loupe south­ward to St Lu­cia. The NHC adds that rain­fall amounts of two to four inch­es (50-100 mm) are pos­si­ble across Bar­ba­dos and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines. The heavy rain­fall could lead to flash flood­ing, es­pe­cial­ly across ar­eas of high­er ter­rain, with iso­lat­ed ur­ban or street flood­ing pos­si­ble.

For T&T, how­ev­er, there are no alerts, watch­es or warn­ings in ef­fect from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS). Their of­fi­cial state­ment on the sys­tem stat­ed, “The TTMS wish­es to un­der­score that this sys­tem pos­es no im­me­di­ate threat to Trinidad, To­ba­go, Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies.”


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