Trinidad has been placed un­der a Lo­calised Flood Alert (Yel­low Lev­el) by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice from 8:00 PM Thurs­day through 8:00 PM Fri­day. 

Ac­cord­ing to the Met Of­fice, high rain­fall ac­cu­mu­la­tions over the last two days have led to small­er wa­ter­cours­es be­com­ing over­whelmed, while ma­jor rivers, like the Ca­roni Riv­er, are near thresh­old lev­els.  

“With ex­tend­ed pe­ri­ods of rain­fall fore­cast­ed for tonight and to­mor­row and 60% chance of heavy show­ers and/or thun­der­storms ex­pect­ed, lo­cal­ized pond­ing can oc­cur and flood­ing in some ar­eas due to filled drains and small­er wa­ter cours­es.”  

The TTMS adds that flood­ing can be ex­ac­er­bat­ed at high tides which will be at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8:00 PM Thurs­day, as well as at 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM Fri­day. 

Ma­jor rivers con­tin­ued to be mon­i­tored close­ly, but as of Thurs­day af­ter­noon, they re­main con­tained. 

The col­or of the alert in­di­cates the sever­i­ty of the event and the prob­a­bil­i­ty of the event oc­cur­ring. Cur­rent­ly, the alert lev­el is Yel­low. This means that the haz­ards are like­ly, but the sever­i­ty of im­pacts is mod­er­ate for this par­tic­u­lar alert. You should be aware of the haz­ards in your area as­so­ci­at­ed with street, flash, and pos­si­ble mi­nor to mod­er­ate river­ine flood­ing. 

For a mod­er­ate Lo­cal­ized Flood Alert, there is the po­ten­tial for pos­si­ble in­juries, where be­hav­ioral changes are re­quired to en­sure safe­ty. There may be mi­nor dam­age to prop­er­ty, with in­come-earn­ing tem­porar­i­ly dis­rupt­ed and a cou­ple of com­mu­ni­ties af­fect­ed. 

The Met Of­fice is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic to care­ful­ly mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and riv­er/wa­ter lev­els, mon­i­tor up­dates from of­fi­cial sources, plan safe­ty mea­sures, and not take un­nec­es­sary risks. They al­so ad­vise the pub­lic to avoid dri­ving or wad­ing through flood wa­ters and fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. 

The TTMS fore­cast for tonight and to­mor­row calls for, “Part­ly cloudy to over­cast con­di­tions with ex­tend­ed pe­ri­ods of light rain. There is a medi­um (60%) chance of iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms main­ly dur­ing the morn­ing. Con­di­tions are ex­pect­ed to set­tle by late af­ter­noon. Gusty winds and street flood­ing like­ly near heavy show­ers or thun­der­storms!” 

Re­porter: Kalain Ho­sein