A Haz­ardous Seas Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el has been ac­ti­vat­ed for Trinidad and To­ba­go and will re­main in ef­fect un­til 11:00 am on Mon­day 27 Sep­tem­ber 2021.  An ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) says the alert was ac­ti­vat­ed at 4:00 am to­day, Fri­day Sep­tem­ber 24th. 

The Met Ser­vice ad­vi­so­ry notes that norther­ly high en­er­gy swells are ex­pect­ed to im­pact north­ern and west­ern nearshore coast­lines of Trinidad and To­ba­go and warns these swells can re­sult in high surfs and oc­ca­sion­al bat­ter­ing waves.

The pub­lic is ad­vised to mon­i­tor sea con­di­tions and ex­er­cise cau­tion in nearshore ar­eas, and es­pe­cial­ly to be on the alert for large waves in the area of in­ter­est, name­ly the north­ern and west­ern nearshore coast­lines of Trinidad and To­ba­go.  In ad­di­tion, per­sons us­ing beach­es are ad­vised to fol­low the in­struc­tions of life­guards.

Mean­while, the Met Ser­vice as­sures that Trop­i­cal Storm Sam, which was up­grad­ed to a hur­ri­cane ear­li­er to­day, pos­es no di­rect threat to Trinidad, To­ba­go, Grena­da and its De­pen­den­cies, and there are no watch­es or warn­ings in ef­fect at this time con­cern­ing this sys­tem.