The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) and the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter (NHC) are mon­i­tor­ing an ac­tive trop­i­cal wave ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 kilo­me­ters east of the Less­er An­tilles. Ac­cord­ing to the NHC, the sys­tem is pro­duc­ing dis­or­ga­nized show­ers and thun­der­storms on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

How­ev­er, en­vi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions could be­come con­ducive for grad­ual de­vel­op­ment of this sys­tem by ear­ly next week as the dis­tur­bance moves west­ward at around 15 miles per hour (28 kilo­me­ters per hour) over the trop­i­cal At­lantic.

The NHC has giv­en this sys­tem a low chance of trop­i­cal cy­clone for­ma­tion (near ze­ro per cent) over the next 48 hours and over the next five days (at 20 per cent).

The Met Of­fice says weath­er as­so­ci­at­ed with this wave is ex­pect­ed to reach Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Less­er An­tilles next Tues­day evening in­to ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing (28th – 29th June 2022).

In ad­di­tion, the TTMS is al­so mon­i­tor­ing a low-lev­el trough that is ex­pect­ed to pro­duce cloudy pe­ri­ods with show­ers or rain and the chance of thun­der­storms on Sun­day (26th June 2022).

The Met Of­fice ad­vis­es the pub­lic to keep up-to-date with the lat­est fore­casts, alerts, and in­for­ma­tion dis­sem­i­nat­ed by the TTMS.

Re­porter: Kalain Ho­sein