Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing off­shore ar­eas of both is­lands, cur­rent­ly are un­der an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el, which will re­main in ef­fect for much of to­day.

Al­ready, there have been re­ports of se­ri­ous flood­ing across the coun­try, lead­ing to traf­fic jams in sev­er­al ar­eas.

Fore­cast­ers at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) note that rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­ter­mit­tent­ly over the next sev­er­al hours. There is a medi­um/high (60-70%) chance of iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms es­pe­cial­ly over east­ern off­shore ar­eas. Gusty winds in ex­cess of 45km/hr are pos­si­ble in the event of heav­ier show­ers/thun­der­storms, and ad­di­tion­al rain­fall will ex­ac­er­bate ar­eas al­ready in­un­dat­ed.

The Met Ser­vice warns that small­er wa­ter cours­es can be­come over­whelmed and spill over on­to sur­round­ing en­vi­rons. Lo­cal­ized flood­ing and pond­ing can cause tem­po­rary traf­fic dis­rup­tions and land­slips are pos­si­ble in ar­eas so prone. In ad­di­tion, gusty winds can lead to loose/un­se­cured items be­ing dis­placed as well as fur­ther ag­i­ta­tion of sea con­di­tions

The Met Ser­vice says the pub­lic SHOULD NOT wade or dri­ve through flood wa­ters. Al­so, it is ad­vis­ing res­i­dents along river­banks to be on the alert.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are en­cour­aged to mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and of­fi­cial up­dates es­pe­cial­ly via www.metof­fice.gov.tt/ and www.odpm.gov.tt, as well as fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.