Adverse weather alert comes into effect early Tuesday

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go, which comes in­to ef­fect at 2 am Tues­day June 10th, end­ing at 4 pm Wednes­day June 11th.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTMS, there is a medi­um (60%) chance of iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms from ear­ly Tues­day morn­ing.

The most im­pact­ful weath­er is ex­pect­ed main­ly over south­ern and east­ern off­shore ar­eas to­mor­row morn­ing, then slow­ly ex­tend­ing across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The TTMS has ad­vised of gusty winds with vary­ing in­ten­si­ties in the vicin­i­ty of heavy down­pours.

Some im­pacts of this ad­verse weath­er in­clude tem­po­rary traf­fic dis­rup­tions, street flood­ing and lo­calised pond­ing, dis­place­ment of ob­jects by gusts and dif­fi­cul­ty an­chor­ing ma­rine craft. 

The TTMS al­so not­ed that the pos­si­ble im­pacts are ex­pect­ed in in­ter­vals and are not an­tic­i­pat­ed to be con­tin­u­ous over the pe­ri­od.

Mo­torists and res­i­dents in flood-prone ar­eas should ex­er­cise cau­tion and take nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to mit­i­gate po­ten­tial im­pacts.