The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is warn­ing that the cur­rent ac­tive trop­i­cal wave lo­cat­ed east of the South­ern Wind­ward is­lands they have been mon­i­tor­ing, could bring rough weath­er to T&T lat­er this week, but says at present, there are no alerts, watch­es or warn­ings in ef­fect.

In its most re­cent ad­vi­so­ry on the trop­i­cal wave’s progress, the Met Ser­vice re­ports the sys­tem cur­rent­ly has a low po­ten­tial (10%) of de­vel­op­ment in two days and a medi­um po­ten­tial (50%) for cy­clone de­vel­op­ment in the next five days.

“At 8:00 am, the ax­is of the trop­i­cal wave was near 54oW, with the lead­ing edge about 450km east of the South­ern Wind­ward Is­lands. The wave is ac­com­pa­nied by heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms mov­ing west­ward at 28 km/h. There is the pos­si­bil­i­ty of grad­ual de­vel­op­ment over the next few days,” the ad­vi­so­ry states.

Five-day outlook for current weather systems in the Atlantic Caribbean. (Image courtesy National Hurricane Centre, via TTMS)

The Met Ser­vice notes that on this present course, the sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to move across the Wind­ward Is­lands dur­ing Wednes­day and Thurs­day. 

It notes: “Re­gard­less of cy­clone de­vel­op­ment, this sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to bring un­sta­ble con­di­tions, re­sult­ing in mod­er­ate to heavy rain­fall ac­com­pa­nied by thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty, af­fect­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Wind­ward Is­lands.”

The TTMS says it will pro­vide an­oth­er up­date at 6:00 pm this evening or ear­li­er if the sit­u­a­tion war­rants, as it con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor this trop­i­cal wave.

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Mem­bers of the pub­lic can stay abreast of de­vel­op­ments by vis­it­ing the Met Ser­vice web­site (www.metof­fice.gov.tt); down­load­ing its mo­bile app (search: TT Met Of­fice); and fol­low­ing the Met Ser­vice so­cial me­dia posts on Twit­ter, Face­book and In­sta­gram.