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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Rain leads to traffic pile up, flash flooding in north Trinidad

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Kalain Hosein
378 days ago
20240718
Flooding occurred at Penguin Crescent, Maloney, yesterday after  heavy rainfall.

Flooding occurred at Penguin Crescent, Maloney, yesterday after heavy rainfall.

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Hours af­ter south Trinidad be­came in­un­dat­ed with flood­ing, cen­tral and north­ern Trinidad ex­pe­ri­enced tor­ren­tial rain­fall yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, and north-mov­ing show­ers and thun­der­storms in­ten­si­fied across the is­land.

Up­wards of three inch­es (75 mil­lime­tres) of rain­fall led to street and flash flood­ing across the East-West Cor­ri­dor, be­tween Trinci­ty and Port-of-Spain, af­fect­ing both the East­ern Main Road and the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way.

Traf­fic was brought to a stand­still at Or­ange Grove, Trinci­ty, as all east­bound lanes of the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way flood­ed by mid-af­ter­noon. The traf­fic back­up con­tin­ued in­to Port-of-Spain as floods af­fect­ed the shoul­der and left-most lane of the high­way near Courts Mega­s­tore in El So­cor­ro.

Flood­ing was re­port­ed in Laven­tille, San Juan, Curepe, El So­cor­ro, Aranguez, Bam­boo #3, Tacarigua, Ma­coya, El Do­ra­do, St Au­gus­tine, Trinci­ty and San Juan.

Across cen­tral Trinidad, heavy rain­fall oc­curred through­out the af­ter­noon, caus­ing street and flash flood­ing in parts of Ch­agua­nas, in­clud­ing on the Ch­agua­nas Main Road and Con­nec­tor Road, which re­mained un­der wa­ter in­to the late evening.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) said the rain­fall and flood­ing was due to “low-lev­el mois­ture and con­ver­gence,” which prompt­ed fore­cast­ers to is­sue Ad­verse Weath­er Alerts for the coun­try yes­ter­day morn­ing and an­oth­er dur­ing the af­ter­noon.

The first Ad­verse Weath­er Alert came at 8.41 am.

The TTMS was ini­tial­ly mon­i­tor­ing “a band of con­ver­gence to the east of To­ba­go”, which was “ex­pect­ed to be en­hanced by favourable at­mos­pher­ic fea­tures and gen­er­ate broad ar­eas of mod­er­ate to heavy show­ers as well as oc­ca­sion­al thun­der­storms.”

The band of con­ver­gence ma­te­ri­alised, but favourable con­di­tions led to show­ers and thun­der­storms de­vel­op­ing across the re­main­der of Trinidad by mid­day. At 12.19 pm, the TTMS ex­pand­ed the alert to en­com­pass all of Trinidad and min­utes lat­er, tor­ren­tial down­pours be­gan across the north­ern half of the is­land.

While no River­ine Flood Alert was is­sued for the South Oropouche Riv­er, as its trib­u­taries over­topped yes­ter­day, flood­ing low-ly­ing ar­eas of Bar­rack­pore, Pe­nal and Debe, the TTMS ad­vised the pub­lic to “se­cure items that may be af­fect­ed by flood wa­ters and do not ven­ture in­to flood wa­ters” in the sec­ond Ad­verse Weath­er Alert.


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