Kalain Ho­sein

Me­te­o­rol­o­gist/Re­porter

kalain.ho­sein@guardian.co.tt

The Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter says a trop­i­cal de­pres­sion is like­ly to form lat­er to­day if show­ers and thun­der­storms con­tin­ue to or­ga­nize as­so­ci­at­ed with trop­i­cal dis­tur­bance, In­vest 95L.

The NHC, in their 2:00 PM Trop­i­cal Weath­er Out­look, says, “This sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to move west­ward at 15 to 20 mph and ap­proach the Wind­ward Is­lands by the end of the week­end, and hur­ri­cane or trop­i­cal storm watch­es could be re­quired for por­tions of that re­gion tonight or ear­ly Sat­ur­day.”

De­vel­op­ment chances have been raised to near 100 per­cent over the next 48 hours and sev­en days re­spec­tive­ly.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice says as of 2:00 PM, the area of ac­tive weath­er as­so­ci­at­ed with the low was cen­tered near 40 W lon­gi­tude (near 2250 km), east-south­east of the south­ern Wind­ward Is­lands.

They add, “At this time, the sys­tem pos­es no di­rect threat to Trinidad and To­ba­go.” How­ev­er, they con­tin­ue, “The ini­tial out­look for Trinidad and To­ba­go is for cloudy skies with show­ers and a medi­um to high chance of thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty by Mon­day 01st Ju­ly 2024. Sea con­di­tions are ex­pect­ed to be­come fur­ther ag­i­tat­ed, par­tic­u­lar­ly along west­ern and north­ern coast­lines.”

The TTMS says that “There are cur­rent­ly no alerts, watch­es, or warn­ings in ef­fect for Trinidad and To­ba­go,” and they will is­sue an­oth­er up­date at 8:00 PM tonight.

Mean­while, the NHC has tagged an­oth­er area east of In­vest 95L, with low chances of de­vel­op­ment over the next sev­en days. Ac­cord­ing the NHC, “A trop­i­cal wave lo­cat­ed sev­er­al hun­dred miles south-south­west of the Cabo Verde Is­lands is pro­duc­ing dis­or­ga­nized show­ers and thun­der­storms. Some slow de­vel­op­ment of this sys­tem is pos­si­ble next week while it moves gen­er­al­ly west­ward at 15 to 20 mph across the cen­tral and west­ern trop­i­cal At­lantic.”