Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing ma­rine ar­eas will be un­der an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el for most of to­day, once it is ac­ti­vat­ed at 9 am.

An ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) says the alert will re­main in ef­fect un­til 5 pm.

Met Ser­vice fore­cast­ers say pe­ri­ods of rain and/or show­ers of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties are ex­pect­ed to­day, Tues­day 25 Oc­to­ber 2022.  There is a high (70%) chance of heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms that can pro­duce in­tense rain­fall in ex­cess of 25 mil­lime­tres.

Fore­cast­ers note that Gusty winds in ex­cess of 55 km/h may be ex­pe­ri­enced, es­pe­cial­ly in the vicin­i­ty of heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms. In ad­di­tion, street/flash flood­ing and lo­cal­ized pond­ing are al­so like­ly in heavy down­pours.

Ma­rine in­ter­ests are ad­vised that seas can be­come ag­i­tat­ed at times in shel­tered ar­eas. Land­slides/land­slips are al­so pos­si­ble in ar­eas so prone.

The Met Ser­vice is urg­ing the pub­lic to avoid wad­ing or dri­ving through flood wa­ters.

Al­so, the pub­lic is en­cour­aged to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing weath­er con­di­tions and of­fi­cial up­dates, which can be ac­cessed from the Met Ser­vice (www.metof­fice.gov.tt) and the ODPM (www.odpm.gov.tt).