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While most peo­ple across Trinidad com­plained about the swel­ter­ing heat yes­ter­day, sev­er­al streets in down­town Port-of-Spain were flood­ed af­ter per­sis­tent rain­fall. Flood­ing was ob­served in the area op­po­site the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice Head­quar­ters, en­com­pass­ing Scott-Bushe, Sackville, and Lon­don Streets, as well as one of the east­bound lanes of Wright­son Road. This re­sult­ed in a tem­po­rary build-up of traf­fic along that route. South Quay was al­so flood­ed and im­pass­able from Broad­way to George Street at one point. This is a reg­u­lar oc­cur­rence af­ter heavy rain­fall in the cap­i­tal and sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­pacts cit­i­zens tra­vers­ing City Gate in par­tic­u­lar.

Show­ers be­gan in north­west­ern Trinidad just be­fore mid­day, fol­lowed by a thun­der­storm at 1.15 pm. This was the de­f­i­n­i­tion of an iso­lat­ed thun­der­storm, as the ma­jor­i­ty of Trinidad would have been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing hot, sun­ny, and hu­mid con­di­tions at the time.

The chance of flood­ing was in­creased by the oc­cur­rence of high tide dur­ing these show­ers. Af­ter two hours of rain­fall, runoff would have been slow­er than usu­al, lead­ing to pond­ing and street flood­ing in sev­er­al ar­eas of the cap­i­tal city.