A Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert was ac­ti­vat­ed for Trinidad at 10:30 am on New Year’s Day, and will re­main in ef­fect un­til Fri­day evening, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

Fore­cast­ers say over the next three days, Trinidad along with east and south off­shore ar­eas will be af­fect­ed in­ter­mit­tent­ly by pe­ri­ods of rain­fall, with a mod­er­ate chance of iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers or thun­der­storms.

“While the weath­er will re­main un­set­tled over­all, there may be set­tled pe­ri­ods be­tween show­ers,” the Met Ser­vice ad­vis­es.

How­ev­er, the pub­lic is re­mind­ed that such con­di­tions could still re­sult in lo­cal­ized flood­ing, pond­ing, land­slides or land­slips in vul­ner­a­ble ar­eas. In ad­di­tion, gusty winds can oc­cur dur­ing heav­ier down­pours.

“The cur­rent weath­er pat­tern, which is be­ing en­hanced by favourable at­mos­pher­ic con­di­tions,” the Met Ser­vice ex­plains, “is sup­port­ing in­creased and pro­longed rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty.”

The Met Ser­vice is en­cour­ag­ing res­i­dents to re­main vig­i­lant and con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing weath­er con­di­tions, as well as as­sess­ing their sur­round­ings be­fore ven­tur­ing out.

Res­i­dents al­so should avoid dri­ving or wad­ing through flood wa­ters. They al­so need to take nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to mit­i­gate po­ten­tial im­pacts, and fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Weath­er up­dates can be ac­cessed at www.metof­fice.gov.tt