No new storm brewing

This as she responded to a post on social media made by Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat.

“We realised there is something going around on social media that people are re-posting and we are going to put up something on our social media to correct some of these rumours.” She continued, “At this current point in time, TT is not under any tropical storm threat, not under any watch or warning. There is no system to the east of TT, no tropical cyclone brewing...nothing.” Shakeer said she was still trying to ascertain where the information was coming from and noted that it did not come from the Met Office.

“I will like to encourage the public to go to the met office platform to verify any information they may need.

Any bulletin or advisory goes straight to all media houses for immediate release and it will also be posted on the met office’s social media platform and its website.” She said TT is in the rainy season therefore there are rainy season features which would be affecting TT. “These features include the Inter-Tropical Conversion Zone (ITCZ) and Tropical Waves which is something that will pass us and we don’t really get any weather out of it. Sometimes the waves pass us with the ITCZ and we might get a couple days of rain.

“Sometimes we might just have a wave passing over us overnight and we get some showers and that’s it. You wake up in the morning and there is nice weather.” Shakeer said the public on the whole tends to be a little “panicky” based on the passage of Bret, and anything they see on social media triggers panic.

She said people should not repost anything that does not come from the met office as this could spread unnecessary fear. In a media post yesterday, Minister Rambharat stated, “As we move into clean up and recovery, we need to pay attention to these two weather systems, south east of Trinidad.

The closer system can bring rain by weekend. The second system is still being examined.”