By Sue-Ann Wayow
THE rainy season is officially here.
Last Friday, the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS) officially declared the start of the 2023 Wet Season.
“The official start to our wet season is marked by measurable rainfall (≥0.1mm) produced by a Tropical Wave and/or the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), both of which are the main weather-producing features of Trinidad and Tobago’s wet season,” TTMS stated on its Facebook page.
The TTMS said it had been monitoring a Tropical Wave (TW), which moved off the west coast of Africa and slowly traversed the Tropical Atlantic over the last ten days which was currently affecting Trinidad and Tobago.
Due to the tropical wave, parts of both islands have recorded measurable rainfall accumulations, thus signaling the official start of the 2023 Wet Season for Trinidad and Tobago, TTMS stated.
The Tropical Wave was expected to gradually migrate northward over the weekend, and another Tropical Wave that the TTMS is tracking, is forecast to pass early this week.
For Monday the TTMS stated that settled conditions are expected to become interrupted by isolated showers from late morning into early afternoon.
There is a low to medium chance that some showers could become heavy or thundery, especially near southern and western areas of Trinidad.
Monday’s maximum forecast temperature is 32 degrees Celsius at Piarco and 30 degrees Celsius at Crown Point, Tobago.
