From 5:00 am to­mor­row (Wednes­day, Oc­to­ber 5), Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing ma­rine ar­eas will be un­der an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert / YEL­LOW Lev­el, which will re­main in ef­fect un­til Noon on Fri­day 7 Oc­to­ber 2022.

Ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS), pe­ri­ods of rain and/or show­ers of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties are ex­pect­ed from ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing—com­menc­ing over To­ba­go and east­ern ar­eas of Trinidad—as an ac­tive trop­i­cal wave tra­vers­es west­ward over our area.

Met Ser­vice fore­cast­ers warn of a high (70%) chance of heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms that can pro­duce in­tense rain­fall in ex­cess of 25 mil­lime­tres.

“Gusty winds in ex­cess of 55 kilo­me­tres per hour may be ex­pe­ri­enced es­pe­cial­ly in the vicin­i­ty of heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms,” the Met Ser­vice ad­vi­so­ry warns. “Street/flash flood­ing and lo­cal­ized pond­ing al­so are like­ly in heavy down­pours. Seas can be­come ag­i­tat­ed at times in shel­tered ar­eas. Land­slides/land­slips are al­so pos­si­ble in ar­eas so prone.”

The Met Ser­vice urges mem­bers of the pub­lic to avoid wad­ing or dri­ving through flood wa­ters.  In ad­di­tion, the pub­lic is en­cour­aged to se­cure loose out­door items and live­stock, as well as to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing weath­er con­di­tions and of­fi­cial up­dates from the Met Ser­vice (www.metof­fice.gov.tt) and the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (www.odpm.gov.tt)

With re­gard to the weath­er fore­cast for the re­main­der of Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 3, the Met Ser­vice fore­cast­ers say:

“Cloudy spells ac­com­pa­nied by light to mod­er­ate show­ers will in­ter­rupt hot and sun­ny con­di­tions. There is al­so a medi­um (40-60%) chance of iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers or thun­der­storms oc­cur­ring. Tonight will be fair at first with cloudi­ness and show­ers like­ly af­ter mid­night. Gusty winds and street flood­ing may oc­cur near heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms.”