The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) says it has been mon­i­tor­ing the progress of an ac­tive trop­i­cal wave to the east of the south­ern Wind­ward Is­lands.

The sys­tem cur­rent­ly has a low po­ten­tial (30%) for cy­clone de­vel­op­ment in the next five (5) days.

At 8 pm, the trop­i­cal wave was near 48W, or about 1365 km east of the south­ern Wind­ward Is­lands.

The wave is cur­rent­ly a dis­or­ga­nized area of scat­tered show­ers and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms mov­ing west­ward at 18 to 28 km/h.

It says there is the pos­si­bil­i­ty of grad­ual de­vel­op­ment over the next few days. On this present course, this sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to move across the Wind­ward Is­lands dur­ing Wednes­day/Thurs­day.

Re­gard­less of de­vel­op­ment, this sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to bring un­sta­ble con­di­tions, re­sult­ing in mod­er­ate to heavy rain­fall ac­com­pa­nied by thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty, af­fect­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Wind­ward Is­lands.

At this present time, there are no alerts, watch­es or warn­ings in ef­fect.

The TTMS says it con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor this trop­i­cal wave and will is­sue and up­date at 9 am to­mor­row morn­ing (20th Sep­tem­ber 2022) or ear­li­er if the sit­u­a­tion war­rants.