The Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing for To­ba­go has been dis­con­tin­ued as Trop­i­cal Storm Gon­za­lo has been down­grad­ed to a Trop­i­cal De­pres­sion.

Con­fir­ma­tion came a short while ago from the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre in Mi­a­mi, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

This means there are no storm warn­ings or watch­es in ef­fect at this time.

The Met Ser­vice says most ac­tiv­i­ty as­so­ci­at­ed with the de­pres­sion has al­ready passed To­ba­go and trop­i­cal storm con­di­tions are no longer ex­pect­ed. How­ev­er, lin­ger­ing mois­ture and in­sta­bil­i­ty may still pro­duce a few show­ers and the odd thun­der­storm, which could lead to street/flash flood­ing in ar­eas so prone.

As such, cit­i­zens are still urged to ex­er­cise cau­tion and avoid tak­ing un­nec­es­sary risks on sea and on land. It is im­por­tant that your im­me­di­ate en­vi­ron­ment be as­sessed for safe­ty con­cerns, giv­en the pos­si­bil­i­ty of dam­age by the rough weath­er ear­li­er to­day, and the rough seas that are still churn­ing in the wake of Gon­za­lo’s ragged squalls.

Cit­i­zens al­so are ad­vised to re­main vig­i­lant and to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing of­fi­cial sources for in­for­ma­tion on the cur­rent weath­er sit­u­a­tion: the Met Ser­vice at www.metof­fice.gov.tt/ and the ODPM at www.odpm.gov.tt/.

NHC OUT­LOOK FOR GON­ZA­LO

At 200 PM AST (1800 UTC), the cen­ter of Trop­i­cal De­pres­sion Gon­za­lo was es­ti­mat­ed to be near lat­i­tude 10.8 North, lon­gi­tude 61.9 West.

Gon­za­lo is mov­ing to­ward the west near 20 mph (32 km/h). A gen­er­al west­ward to west-north­west­ward mo­tion is ex­pect­ed to­day and tonight.

On the fore­cast track, Gon­za­lo or its rem­nants will move across the south-east­ern Caribbean Sea to­day and Sun­day.

Max­i­mum sus­tained winds have de­creased to near 35 mph (55 km/h) with high­er gusts. The sys­tem is fore­cast to dis­si­pate by Sun­day night, if not soon­er.

The es­ti­mat­ed min­i­mum cen­tral pres­sure is 1010 mb (29.82 inch­es).

Gusty con­di­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with squalls will be pos­si­ble across the south­ern Wind­ward Is­lands for the rest of the af­ter­noon.  These squalls will spread west­ward across the south-east­ern Caribbean Sea through Sun­day.

Gon­za­lo is ex­pect­ed to pro­duce to­tal rain ac­cu­mu­la­tions of 2 to 4 inch­es over Trinidad and To­ba­go and far north-east­ern Venezuela. Gon­za­lo is al­so ex­pect­ed to pro­duce 1 to 3 inch­es over the south­ern Wind­ward Is­lands, the Lee­ward An­tilles, and the re­main­der of far north­ern Venezuela. This in­cludes Saint Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Grena­da, Aru­ba, Bonaire, and Cu­ra­cao.

Iso­lat­ed max­i­mum amounts of 6 inch­es are pos­si­ble in the moun­tain­ous ter­rain of Trinidad and To­ba­go and far north-east­ern Venezuela, which may lead to flash flood­ing.