Flood­ing, be­cause of heavy show­ers and thun­der­show­ers, should be ex­pect­ed to­day, as thou­sands of vot­ers through­out T&T seek to cast their votes. This warn­ing was sent out by the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice yes­ter­day, in an of­fi­cial "elec­tion day weath­er alert". "Hav­ing re­gard to our coun­try's elec­tion day on May 24, all cit­i­zens are ad­vised to plan their ac­tiv­i­ties and move­ments with due care and con­sid­er­a­tion, giv­en fore­cast­ed weath­er con­di­tions as they ex­er­cise their de­mo­c­ra­t­ic rights. "Dis­rup­tions ow­ing to lo­calised flood­ing, con­se­quent up­on heavy show­ers or thun­der­show­ers, should be ex­pect­ed. "As such, cit­i­zens should pre­pare for this pos­si­ble even­tu­al­i­ty."

The Met Of­fice said some parts of South and Cen­tral Trinidad re­ceived mod­er­ate to heavy rain­fall since 4 am yes­ter­day, as a re­sult of the vis­it of the in­ter-trop­i­cal con­ver­gence zone. A re­lease said 28.3 mm of "con­sid­er­able" rain­fall was record­ed. The ITCZ was ex­pect­ed to linger over T&T an­oth­er 12 to 18 hours. "This could trans­late in­to vari­able cloudy to over­cast skies, with pe­ri­ods of rain/show­ers and the iso­lat­ed thun­der­show­er. "The time frame of oc­cur­rence for this an­tic­i­pat­ed rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty would co­in­cide with pre and of­fi­cial times of elec­tion day polling," the re­lease said. The Met Of­fice is mon­i­tor­ing close­ly this weath­er sit­u­a­tion, and will is­sue fur­ther alerts if war­rant­ed.