The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has again sus­pend­ed its rou­tine fore­cast prod­ucts and ser­vices at the Syn­op­tic (Fore­cast­ing) Branch due to a staff short­age.

This dis­rup­tion was ex­pressed in an email dis­sem­i­nat­ed to the me­dia which in­di­cat­ed that fore­cast prod­ucts and ser­vices will re­sume at 7:15 p.m. to­day (Oc­to­ber 1).

The last pub­lic weath­er fore­cast is­sued by the TTMS was at 6:12 a.m. to­day, al­ready miss­ing the 10 a.m. fore­cast and, based on the in­for­ma­tion in the email, the 4 p.m. fore­cast will not be is­sued.

The most re­cent pub­lic dis­rup­tion was in Ju­ly, which led to an emer­gency meet­ing be­tween Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Utilites Clyde El­der, Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary Shiv­an­na Sam and TTMS of­fi­cials.

The in­stance be­fore, in June 2025, flight op­er­a­tions were af­fect­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port due to a sim­i­lar short­age. How­ev­er, this may not be the case this time, as crit­i­cal avi­a­tion prod­ucts are still be­ing is­sued by the TTMS to­day.