Most of Trinidad cur­rent­ly is un­der a Lo­calised Flood Alert/Yel­low Lev­el, which was ac­ti­vat­ed at 10:15 am to­day.

Var­i­ous parts of the is­land can ex­pect traf­fic de­lays be­cause of lo­calised flood­ing and pond­ing on var­i­ous road­ways, in ad­di­tion to vis­i­bil­i­ty is­sues from thun­der­storms.

An ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the T&T Met Ser­vice says the Alert will be in ef­fect un­til about 4:00 this af­ter­noon.

“Pe­ri­ods of rain of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties and iso­lat­ed heavy show­ers/thun­der­storms are ex­pect­ed to­day due to the pres­ence of the ITCZ (In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone),” the Met Ser­vice ad­vi­so­ry notes.

Fore­cast­ers warn that among the key im­pacts of to­day’s rough weath­er are lo­cal­ized flood­ing and pond­ing, es­pe­cial­ly in low-ly­ing and flood-prone ar­eas; po­ten­tial traf­fic de­lays due to wa­ter ac­cu­mu­la­tion on road­ways; and re­duced vis­i­bil­i­ty dur­ing heavy down­pours, which may af­fect dri­ving con­di­tions.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are en­cour­aged to mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions and as­sess sur­round­ings be­fore ven­tur­ing out.

In ad­di­tion, the Met Ser­vice warns against dri­ving or wad­ing through flood wa­ters.

It al­so en­cour­ages the pub­lic to fol­low the in­struc­tions of gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, and stay up­dat­ed on de­vel­op­ments at its web­site at www.metof­fice.gov.tt