High wind alert remains in effect

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has main­tained its High Wind Alert at yel­low lev­el as breezy to windy con­di­tions con­tin­ue across Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters.

In an up­date is­sued at 12.52 pm to­day, the Met Of­fice said the con­di­tions are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­ter­mit­tent­ly un­til mid­night on Tues­day.

The Met Of­fice warned that gusts ex­ceed­ing 55 kilo­me­tres per hour are pos­si­ble, par­tic­u­lar­ly near show­ers, in east­ern ar­eas and along el­e­vat­ed ter­rain.

It said the gusts may be strong enough to dis­place un­se­cured roofs and loose out­door items, while al­so break­ing tree branch­es.

Sea con­di­tions are al­so ex­pect­ed to be­come ag­i­tat­ed, with pos­si­ble dis­rup­tion to ma­rine ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing moor­ing and swim­ming.

The alert car­ries a mod­er­ate sever­i­ty lev­el with ob­served cer­tain­ty, and the pub­lic has been urged to mon­i­tor of­fi­cial up­dates.

The Met Of­fice ad­vised res­i­dents to se­cure loose out­door ob­jects and live­stock, while ma­rine in­ter­ests should ex­er­cise cau­tion and small craft op­er­a­tors should re­strict ac­tiv­i­ty.

Beach­go­ers were al­so told to fol­low the in­struc­tions of life­guards.