The Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice has dis­con­tin­ued its warn­ing about Trop­i­cal Storm Ernesto to sev­er­al Caribbean is­lands. The storm warn­ing was put in­to ef­fect ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing for neigh­bour­ing is­lands Bar­ba­dos, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Do­mini­ca, St Lu­cia and Guade­loupe.

A bul­letin is­sued at 6.23 am by T&T's Met Of­fice con­tained the warn­ing. How­ev­er, in a tele­phone in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian, the Met Of­fice said the is­lands were no longer un­der any threat from the storm since it is mov­ing in­to the Caribbean Sea.

A bul­letin is­sued at 2:32 pm said, "Trop­i­cal Storm Ernesto is mov­ing away from the Wind­ward Is­lands and in­to the Caribbean Sea. Trop­i­cal Storm Ernesto at 2 pm is cen­tred near lat­i­tude 13.7N lon­gi­tude 62.3W or ap­prox­i­mate­ly 140 km west of St Lu­cia and pos­es no threat to Trinidad, To­ba­go, Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies."

These is­lands as well as T&T, how­ev­er, are still ex­pect­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence show­ers, thun­der­show­ers, gusty winds and flash flood­ing. The warn­ing caused dis­rup­tions to flights to and from Bar­ba­dos. A Caribbean Air­lines me­dia re­lease an­nounced the clo­sure of Grant­ley Adams In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Bar­ba­dos and the re-ad­just­ed flight times for eight flights to Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica.

How­ev­er, a phone call to Grant­ley Adams In­ter­na­tion­al re­vealed the air­port had been re­opened at 10 am yes­ter­day.