More rain­fall re­mains in T&T’s fore­cast, prompt­ing the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) to ex­tend both alerts that were in ef­fect to 8 pm to­day.

The Ad­verse Weath­er Alert (Yel­low Lev­el) has been in ef­fect for Trinidad, To­ba­go and sur­round­ing ma­rine ar­eas since 2 pm Tues­day.

In the lat­est up­date of the alert yes­ter­day, the Met Of­fice said, “Con­di­tions this evening and overnight are ex­pect­ed to be gen­er­al­ly set­tled apart from a few in­ter­vals of show­ers and the odd thun­der­storm. The most in­tense ac­tiv­i­ty will like­ly re­main off­shore at times. How­ev­er, pe­ri­ods of rain and/or show­ers of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties are still ex­pect­ed, es­pe­cial­ly from late morn­ing/ear­ly af­ter­noon to­mor­row (No­vem­ber 24).”

The TTMS al­so warned, “There is a 60-70 per cent (medi­um-high) chance of heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms that can pro­duce in­tense rain­fall above 25 mm. The land is very sat­u­rat­ed, so the risk of street/flash flood­ing, lo­cal­ized pond­ing and land­slides/land­slips will be high­er. Gusty winds in ex­cess of 55 km/h may be ex­pe­ri­enced, es­pe­cial­ly in the vicin­i­ty of heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms.”

As flood­ing con­tin­ued across the coun­try, re­port­ed main­ly across parts of east­ern Trinidad along the Man­zanil­la-Ma­yaro Road and across both the North Oropouche and Ca­roni Riv­er Basins, the River­ine Flood Alert (Yel­low Lev­el) was both ex­tend­ed and ex­pand­ed. It now cov­ers the North Oropouche Riv­er Basin, the Ca­roni Riv­er Basin, as well as sur­round­ing trib­u­taries.

In their third up­date of the River­ine Flood Alert, the TTMS ex­plained, “Af­ter to­day’s rain­fall event, riv­er lev­els along the Ca­roni and North Oropouche Rivers con­tin­ue to rise and are cur­rent­ly above 80 per cent, with El Car­men be­ing at a crit­i­cal lev­el of 93 per cent. Weath­er con­di­tions are ex­pect­ed to set­tle dur­ing the night. How­ev­er, oc­ca­sion­al in­ter­vals of heavy show­ers are still like­ly there­after. This ad­di­tion­al rain­fall can keep the riv­er lev­els el­e­vat­ed, so there re­mains a mod­er­ate risk to pub­lic safe­ty, liveli­hood and prop­er­ty.”

The Met Of­fice ad­vised the pub­lic to mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and riv­er lev­els be­fore ven­tur­ing out, avoid ar­eas with flood­ing, mon­i­tor up­dates from of­fi­cial sources, plan safe­ty mea­sures, not take un­nec­es­sary risks and fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.