Adverse weather alert extended as unsettled conditions expected into Sunday

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has ex­tend­ed its Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, warn­ing that un­set­tled weath­er is now ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­to Sun­day.

The up­dat­ed alert re­mains in ef­fect un­til 2:00 pm on Ju­ly 19 and cov­ers Trinidad and To­ba­go and the sur­round­ing ma­rine wa­ters.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTMS, there is ex­pect­ed to be a tem­po­rary break in heavy show­ers and thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty dur­ing the late af­ter­noon, evening and ear­ly tonight.

The lull is be­ing at­trib­uted to a sig­nif­i­cant con­cen­tra­tion of Sa­ha­ran dust over the re­gion, which is help­ing to sta­bilise the at­mos­phere.

How­ev­er, fore­cast­ers say that calmer con­di­tions will be short-lived.

An ap­proach­ing trop­i­cal wave, in­ter­act­ing with the In­tertrop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ), is fore­cast to bring an­oth­er round of show­ers and thun­der­storms af­ter mid­night. The wet weath­er is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­to Sun­day, with grad­ual im­prove­ment an­tic­i­pat­ed by late af­ter­noon.

The TTMS warned that gusty winds, street flood­ing and flash flood­ing re­main pos­si­ble in ar­eas af­fect­ed by heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms.

The ex­ten­sion comes af­ter se­vere weath­er af­fect­ed parts of Trinidad overnight and in­to Sat­ur­day, in­clud­ing re­ports of a fall­en tree block­ing Morne Co­co Road be­tween Pe­tit Val­ley and Mar­aval.

Res­i­dents in flood-prone and land­slide-prone com­mu­ni­ties are be­ing urged to re­main vig­i­lant, mon­i­tor chang­ing weath­er con­di­tions and take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to pro­tect life and prop­er­ty. Mo­torists should ex­er­cise cau­tion on wa­ter­logged roads and avoid dri­ving through flood­ed ar­eas where con­di­tions can­not be safe­ly as­sessed.

The TTMS is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing of­fi­cial weath­er up­dates at www.metof­fice.gov.tt⁠ as the sit­u­a­tion de­vel­ops.