Adverse weather alert for western half of Trinidad

Trinidad and To­ba­go may be ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a hot spell, but that will not stop parts of the coun­try from fac­ing a risk of heavy rain­fall and flood­ing this af­ter­noon.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has placed the west­ern half of Trinidad un­der a Yel­low-Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert from 1 pm to 5 pm to­day, Oc­to­ber 5, not­ing that heavy show­ers and thun­der­storms could pro­duce street or flash flood­ing, land­slips and gusty winds.

The alert comes while the is­lands re­main un­der a Hot Spell Alert, cre­at­ing what may ap­pear to be con­trast­ing weath­er con­di­tions; un­usu­al­ly hot con­di­tions along­side the pos­si­bil­i­ty of in­tense af­ter­noon rain­fall.