A burst of torrential rain was all it took to bring parts of Port-of-Spain and western Trinidad to a crawl yesterday, as floodwaters swallowed streets and backed up traffic.
The mid-afternoon deluge triggered street flooding across Downtown Port-of-Spain, Diego Martin and Maraval, once again exposing the disruption that heavy rainfall routinely causes along the western corridor...
The country remains under a Yellow-Level Hot Spell Alert through October 31. While warning of elevated temperatures, the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS) specifically notes that rainfall associated with tropical waves, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and other weather systems can still occur during the local heat season.
