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The Yellow Level Adverse Weather Advisory has been extended and we have experienced significant unstable weather conditions throughout the day.

How long is this expected to continue? Well joining us to help answer that question and more is Meteorologist Gary Benjamin.
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00:00Well, the yellow level adverse weather advisory has been extended and we have experienced
00:05significant unstable weather conditions throughout the day. How long is this expected to continue?
00:10Well, joining us to help answer that question and more is meteorologist Gary Benjamin.
00:15Good evening, Mr. Benjamin, and thank you for joining us.
00:19Pleasant and good evening to you and to all your viewers and your listeners.
00:23Mr. Benjamin, tell us more about the extension of this yellow level
00:27and to what extent citizens should be consumed.
00:30Okay, well, since last Thursday, we have been initially alerted to this type of weather
00:38that is possible for Tuesday and yesterday, on Monday, sorry, we put out the yellow level
00:45alert for Tuesday, which had come to and out as we are expecting in the heavy showers and
00:53we have had consistent rainfall and heavy showers across Canada and Tobago since yesterday.
00:59morning, and it is ongoing. We are expecting a little bit of abatement tonight, but because
01:06of the cumulative effects of that rainfall over more than a 24-hour period, we have extended
01:12the yellow level because we expect that the rivers could be rising and all the different
01:17effects of this continuous rainfall could still be in the air, so to speak. So we have the yellow level,
01:25still ongoing, and we are looking at it, and probably we'll get some more weather tomorrow,
01:30and we will look at it and continue to see how it goes.
01:33But for now, yellow level has been extended until tomorrow afternoon.
01:38Well, you're speaking about tomorrow, but what about in the days thereafter and this weekend?
01:42What can citizens expect?
01:43Okay, so we expect Tuesday was a tropical wave. Today was a perturbation because these
01:51kind of virgences takes place around the tropical waves, so today we have a perturbation or low-level
01:58trough, if you like. Tomorrow, we have a much weaker trough, but because of the cumulative effects,
02:04we could still expect some flooding in some areas, and on Friday, early Friday, there's
02:11the expectation of a tropical wave again, so that we could expect continuing rainfall bouts,
02:17sometimes heavy rainfall, for the next few days. I'll be looking at better weather conditions,
02:24at least coming to sometime Saturday and over the weekend.
02:28And Mr. Benjamin, with other areas of interest developing, how safe is Trinidad and Tobago?
02:32Well, we are as safe as we've been prepared for. We have been having the NDPPM, the National
02:41Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Month, for ongoing and we've been allowing the population,
02:47educating the population, the DFOs, and all the major stakeholders. Of course, repeating
02:52the population is a major stakeholder. So everyone should have been prepared, and if you are not
02:57prepared, the rainy season is ongoing, and this is not the only bout of rain what we expect
03:04in the rainy season. So continue our preparations, and take our information from the official sources,
03:11such as the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service, and the ODPM.
03:16Well, thank you very much, Mr. Benjamin, for joining us tonight, and the information that
03:20you have provided to help us all keep safe. Thank you.
03:25Much appreciated. Take care.
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