AFTER THE downpour yesterday, Barbadians can expect more rain, as the island continues to be affected by a tropical wave.
This is according to the Barbados Meteorological Services’ forecast for today.
Speaking to the DAILY NATION yesterday, forecaster Earl Hunte stated that while Barbados was being affected by the tropical wave, the axis should have passed through last night.
“But [today] we are still expecting to be generally cloudy to overcast; some showers, isolated thunderstorms and occasional gusty winds,” he said.
Hunte said the Met Office did not receive reports of flooding and that that was due to the fact “we experienced moderateto heavy showers lasting for five to ten minutes, the next set coming through about half of an hour later; so there was time for the water to run off”.
When asked about the sudden change from last week’s humid weather, Hunte explained that “since then the winds in the lower level have increased quite a bit, which is why this tropical wave got here as quickly as it did”.
The bad weather caused political meetings, social functions and sporting eventsto be cancelled, and triggered power outages across the island. workers of the Barbados Light & Power (BL&P) were yesterday afternoon restoring fallen utility poles and clearing tree branches.
BL&P corporate communications coordinator Jackie Marshall-Clarke reported that the parishes affected by outages yesterday were St George, St Thomas, St Philip, St Michael and St Andrew.
“Because of the number of customers affected . . . , we would have called extra crews on duty to assist the emergency crew and we are working then to restore power to all customers affected,” she said. (AH)
