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Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service wrote:A tropical wave located about 1100km east of the Windward Islands continues to produce disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity. Upper-level winds appear too strong to support significant development of the wave during the next couple
of days. This system has a low chance...10 percent...of becoming a Tropical Cyclone during the next 48 hours as it moves westward at about 24km/hour. Locally heavy rains associated with the wave could begin to move across portions of the Lesser Antilles on Sunday. The TTMS is closely monitoring this Tropical Wave, and will continue to keep the public informed.
ZCZC MIATWOAT ALL
TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EDT SAT SEP 15 2012
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON HURRICANE
NADINE...LOCATED ABOUT 795 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA.
1. A TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED ABOUT 700 MILES EAST OF THE WINDWARD ISLANDS
CONTINUES TO PRODUCE DISORGANIZED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.
UPPER-LEVEL WINDS APPEAR TOO STRONG TO SUPPORT SIGNIFICANT
DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAVE DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS
SYSTEM HAS A LOW CHANCE...10 PERCENT...OF BECOMING A TROPICAL
CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS AS IT MOVES WESTWARD AT ABOUT 15
MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAVE COULD BEGIN TO
MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LESSER ANTILLES ON SUNDAY.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
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FORECASTER BERG
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cinco wrote:White CZ4A wrote:Chalupa Had a good downpour just now!
huh where?
TRDGUY wrote:rumbling like waw in sando
Freak storm hits South Trinidad
…1,500 UTT students in limbo
Published:
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Radhica Sookraj
Gusty winds tore off the roof of the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s south campus on Sunday destroying more than $12 million worth of equipment and displacing more than 1,500 students. The campus, at Tarouba Link Road, San Fernando, remained closed yesterday as staff met with Tertiary Education Minister Fazal Karim, chairman of the UTT board Curtis Manchoon, campus manager Rennie Coolman and acting UTT president Fazal Ali.
Hook wrote:Look up Climate Variability and understand the different cycles our environment goes through long before we started leaving carbon footprints - some cycles are as short as 50 years, some over 1100 years...for example, the tropics don't always stay at 23.5* N and S latitude, it shifts anywhere from 21 to 25 degrees, but it takes over a thousand years for it to change. A single degree, or 111km widening of the tropics can dramatically change the landscape of the planet over time by way of accelerated melting of the polar icecaps, which decreases water salinity near the poles, and influences glacial flow...the arctic is where the huskies are, which are also in Alaska, where Paul Walker filmed Eight Below. Paul was also in Joy Ride with Steve Zahn, who was in Out Of Sight with George Clooney, who was in Ocean's Eleven with Brad Pitt, who was in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon.
Climate Change = Kevin Bacon.
A WEATHER expert yesterday warned that Sunday's devastating storm in San Fernando was nothing new and likely to happen again within the next two months.
Shakeer Baig, acting chief meteorologist at the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service, said what occurred on Sunday was a micro-burst.
He explained: "A micro-burst is a gust of wind from a centre cloud. This is not something that is unusual except for the intensity yesterday was stronger than usual. During the year, especially at this time of the year, temperatures during the morning time are very high."
He said on Sunday "the temperature during the first part of the day before midday got to 35 degrees Celsius. Whenever we have very light prevailing easterly winds and the temperature very high, what happens is that we get something called the sea breeze effect, where you have a lot of air over the land heating up and rising.And because your easterly wind is very light, you get a wind developing off the Gulf of Paria and blowing inland."
The bad weather felled a 100-ft tree near Rahamut's Service Station on Pointe-a-Pierre Road in San Fernando.
The tree fell after it was struck by lightning around 1.45 p.m., said eyewitness Sharon Hosein, an employee at the gas station.
She said witnessing the tree falling on the diesel tank mere metres away from the office where she was standing was "something I would not like to see happen again".
"We are grateful that there was no explosion in the station itself, and that there were no injuries and there was no one hurt. Things could have been a lot worse," she said.
The fallen tree also knocked out electricity in the area. Ted Jhilmit, a driver with the Forestry Division, said he spent yesterday morning clearing fallen trees knocked down by strong winds at San Fernando Hill.
The clean-up is expected to continue today. At Lady Hailes Avenue, Akheem Wankin was at home eating lunch with his five children on Sunday afternoon when he said he felt his wooden house shaking.
He ran outside with his children to see a large tree falling on the roof.
"I thought I would have died with heart attack," he said. But no one was injured. Five houses in the area were also affected by falling trees. Chairman of the National Self Help Commission Surujdeo Mangaroo visited storm-damaged homes at Lady Hailes Avenue yesterday.
And workers from the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) were assisting residents in cutting and clearing trees.
Member of Parliament for San Fernando West Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan and local councillors also visited affected areas in San Fernando and distributed mattresses, food hampers and tarpaulins to victims.
Minister of the People and Social Development Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh, whose Ministry is responsible for the distribution of State funds for victims of disasters, visited 14 families who live at Bayshore, Marabella.
He distributed seven emergency food cards, valued at $450, that could only be used once; seven food hampers and 14 medical hampers.
Bandages, plasters, hand sanitisers, towels, pain-killers and antibacterial creams were included in the medical hampers.
I'm not certain if Baig actually said that, or if that's what the reporter heard.
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