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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is mon­i­tor­ing an ac­tive Trop­i­cal Wave in the Cen­tral Trop­i­cal At­lantic, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2,300 kilo­me­tres east of the South­ern Wind­ward is­lands.

The sys­tem cur­rent­ly has a low chance, be­tween 10 and 30 per cent, of de­vel­op­ing in­to a Trop­i­cal Cy­clone over the next two to sev­en days. The wave is mov­ing west­ward at 24 to 32 kilo­me­tres per hour and is ex­pect­ed to pass over the South­ern Wind­ward is­lands lat­er this week­end.

The TTMS warned that, re­gard­less of de­vel­op­ment, the wave will bring in­creased rain­fall across por­tions of the South­ern Wind­wards. Show­ers and thun­der­storms are ex­pect­ed to be­gin in Trinidad and To­ba­go late Sat­ur­day, with pe­ri­ods of heavy rain­fall like­ly to con­tin­ue in­to Mon­day as the sys­tem moves across the is­lands.