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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Met Service warns more thunderstorms possible today

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
24 days ago
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Areas under the Yellow Level Adverse Weather Alert issued for Trinidad and Tobago, in effect from 2:00 am June 10, 2025, to 4:00 pm on Wednesday (June 11. Image courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS),

Areas under the Yellow Level Adverse Weather Alert issued for Trinidad and Tobago, in effect from 2:00 am June 10, 2025, to 4:00 pm on Wednesday (June 11. Image courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS),

Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service

While the cur­rent Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert re­mains in ef­fect un­til lat­er this af­ter­noon, the Met Ser­vice is still ad­vis­ing the pop­u­la­tion on both is­lands to re­main vig­i­lant—es­pe­cial­ly those liv­ing in flood and land­slide prone ar­eas.

“Per­sons in flood and land­slide prone ar­eas are urged to re­main alert, take pre­cau­tions where nec­es­sary and mon­i­tor of­fi­cial up­dates through­out the day,” the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) urges in its lat­est ad­vi­so­ry is­sued a short while ago.

“Mo­torists and res­i­dents in flood-prone ar­eas avoid flood­ed ar­eas and ex­er­cise cau­tion. Se­cure loose out­door ob­jects,” it ad­vised.

The ad­vi­so­ry’s core mes­sage:

“Take nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to mit­i­gate po­ten­tial im­pacts.”

Met Ser­vice fore­cast­ers warn of a 60% chance for iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms to de­vel­op to­day, which they say in­creas­es:

“…the risk of street flood­ing and land­slides/land­slips, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ar­eas with sat­u­rat­ed soils. At this time, ma­jor rivers are con­tained and be­low medi­um ca­pac­i­ty, though lev­els may rise rapid­ly in the event of heavy rain­fall.”

The Met Ser­vice notes that winds may be­come gusty in the vicin­i­ty of heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms.

“These winds may fur­ther ag­i­tate sea con­di­tions, dis­place loose out­door items and even top­ple un­sta­ble trees,” it not­ed.

As this most re­cent ad­verse weath­er event con­tin­ues to im­pact Trinidad, To­ba­go and their sur­round­ing wa­ters, every­one is urged to con­tin­ue mon­i­tor of­fi­cial weath­er up­dates at www.metof­fice.gov.tt


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