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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has ex­tend­ed its yel­low-lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert to 4:00 p.m. Fri­day. The TTMS warns of an in­creased risk of pe­ri­od­ic heavy show­ers and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms.

The Met Ser­vice al­so in­di­cat­ed that due to the pro­longed rains there is an in­creased risk of street /flash flood­ing and land­slides/land­slips, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ar­eas with sat­u­rat­ed soils. The con­sis­tent rain­fall has al­so led to the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a River­ine Alert – Or­ange Lev­el main­ly for rivers in the Ca­roni and south Oropouche riv­er Basins.

The pub­lic, par­tic­u­lar­ly those in flood-prone or hilly ar­eas, is urged to re­main vig­i­lant, avoid flood­ed routes, se­cure loose ob­jects, and con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing of­fi­cial up­dates at www.metof­fice.gov.tt