An Ad­verse Weath­er Alert/YEL­LOW Lev­el was ac­ti­vat­ed at 5 am to­day, and will re­main in ef­fect un­til 5 pm, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

Met Ser­vice fore­cast­ers say there is a high (70%) chance that the pas­sage of a trop­i­cal wave will re­sult in heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms, ini­tial­ly favour­ing To­ba­go dur­ing the morn­ing, and then over Trinidad by late morn­ing in­to the af­ter­noon.

Ac­cord­ing to the Met Ser­vice, these thun­der­storms can pro­duce in­tense rain­fall of over 25 mm. Street and/or flash flood­ing are pos­si­ble in ar­eas so prone, caus­ing mi­nor traf­fic dis­rup­tions. In ad­di­tion, elec­tri­cal dis­charges are like­ly, and the threat of gusty winds al­so will be present. These wind gusts may be brief, but are ca­pa­ble of break­ing tree branch­es, dis­plac­ing un­se­cured roofs and loose out­door ob­jects, and can even top­ple over un­healthy trees.

The pub­lic is en­cour­aged to avoid wad­ing or dri­ving through flood wa­ters.  In ad­di­tion, ef­forts should be made to se­cure loose out­door items and live­stock.

The Met Ser­vice ad­vis­es the pub­lic to mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and of­fi­cial up­dates.  It says up­dates will be made avail­able at its web­site (www.metof­fice.gov.tt/) and that of the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (www.odpm.gov.tt), and their re­spec­tive so­cial me­dia por­tals.