Trinidad and To­ba­go may be on the verge of the of­fi­cial start of the Wet Sea­son.

Yes­ter­day, most of Trinidad awoke to heavy rain­fall and gusty winds in some ar­eas due to the con­ver­gence of winds in the low­er lev­els of the at­mos­phere, cou­pled with favourable up­per lev­el con­di­tions, en­hanc­ing the al­ready un­sta­ble set­up.

The ini­tial Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert (#1) was is­sued on Fri­day (May 16) af­ter­noon, to take ef­fect at 6 pm on Sat­ur­day, May 17, un­til 6 pm on Sun­day, May 18. Heavy rain­fall and thun­der­storms de­vel­oped around 2 am on Sun­day and peaked in the hours sur­round­ing sun­rise. The alert was sub­se­quent­ly up­dat­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing, with the end time ex­tend­ed un­til 6 pm to­day.