Storm warning for TT

Chief Meteorologist, Emmanuel Moolchan, yesterday  warned that TT has been put under a Tropical Storm Warning as Tropical Storm Earl strengthened while approaching the Carib-bean. The Meteorological office said it will continue to monitor weather conditions throughout the day and the public will be kept informed through the media. However, the weather forecast predicted torrential and thundery showers and it was expected that TT will experience storm conditions before sunrise today. A wire news report from Bridgetown, Barbados, also said that Tropical Storm Earl grew from a tropical depression and gathered strength yesterday as it neared several eastern Caribbean islands with potentially hazardous winds and heavy rains.

Forecasters said the storm could strengthen to a hurricane by tomorrow once it is over the Caribbean Sea. The fifth tropical storm of the Atlantic season prompted storm warnings in Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadiness, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago. Earl’s centre is forecast to move over parts of the islands today and later could become the season’s third hurricane — with winds of 74 mph (119 kph) or greater — over the open Caribbean, said Robbie Berg, a meteorologist at the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami.