The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

For TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO… A River­ine Flood Alert #1 (YEL­LOW Lev­el) is in ef­fect.  Ar­eas af­fect­ed in­clude South­ern Trinidad, specif­i­cal­ly com­mu­ni­ties sur­round­ing the South Oropouche Riv­er and its trib­u­taries; and parts of West­ern To­ba­go, name­ly com­mu­ni­ties along the Crooks and Ba­co­let Rivers.

The South Oropouche Riv­er is very near its ca­pac­i­ty and may have al­ready breached its bank in some parts, with wa­ter spilling in­to sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties in South Trinidad that are prone to flood­ing. There is ex­pect­ed to be an in­crease in the vol­ume of wa­ter in­to this main wa­ter­course with added rain­fall from in­ter­mit­tent show­ers and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms ex­pect­ed dur­ing the course of to­day.

Due to heavy rain­fall overnight in To­ba­go, the Crooks and Ba­co­let Rivers both over­spilled their banks caus­ing flood­ing in Scar­bor­ough.

Mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and riv­er lev­els be­fore ven­tur­ing out. Avoid ar­eas with flood wa­ters. Mon­i­tor up­dates from of­fi­cial sources and plan safe­ty mea­sures, in­clud­ing emer­gency sup­plies of food and wa­ter. Fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. More in­for­ma­tion avail­able at www.metof­fice.gov.tt and www.odpm.gov.tt

Riverine Flood Alert - YELLOW Level currently in effect. (Image courtesy Meteorological Service of Trinidad and Tobago)

TRINIDAD, TO­BA­GO AND THE LEE­WARDS

To­day’s sun­shine will like­ly be in­ter­rupt­ed by pe­ri­ods of cloudi­ness and show­ers, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing the af­ter­noon, and favour­ing Trinidad. There is al­so a medi­um (60%) chance of iso­lat­ed thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty. Tonight, con­di­tions will be gen­er­al­ly set­tled apart from lin­ger­ing show­ers over a few ar­eas. Iso­lat­ed street/flash flood­ing events are pos­si­ble with heav­ier down­pours.

THE WIND­WARD IS­LANDS

Weath­er con­di­tions will be part­ly cloudy/cloudy with pe­ri­ods of rain­fall and thun­der­storm ac­tiv­i­ty.

TEM­PER­A­TURE

Pi­ar­co

   Last Night’s Min­i­mum 24.0ºC

   To­day's Fore­cast Max­i­mum 33.0ºC

Crown Point

   Last Night’s Min­i­mum 24.7ºC

   To­day’s Fore­cast Max­i­mum 31.0ºC

SEAS

Slight to Mod­er­ate

WAVES

Up to 1.5 m in open wa­ters;

Be­low 1.0 m; oc­ca­sion­al­ly chop­py in shel­tered ar­eas

RAIN­FALL

Pi­ar­co

   24-Hours Rain­fall (mm) end­ing 2:00 pm Mon­day 26 Sep­tem­ber 2022 = 1.7 mm

   Month­ly Cu­mu­la­tive (2pm - 2pm) = 210.4 mm

Crown Point

   24-Hours Rain­fall (mm) end­ing 2:00 pm, Mon­day 26 Sep­tem­ber 2022 = 14.8 mm

   Month­ly Cu­mu­la­tive (2pm - 2pm) = 157.3 mm

SUN­RISE AND SUN­SET

Sun­rise: 5:54 AM

Sun­set: 5:58 PM

TIDES

Port of Spain

   HIGH 04:45 AM 04:56 PM

   LOW 10:42 AM 11:15 PM

Scar­bor­ough

   HIGH 04:11 AM 04:18 PM

   LOW 10:15 AM 10:36 PM