So while Orange Street residents may be seeing better drainage in their area, Dean and King Street residents will need to pull out their sandbags and rainboots because the rainy weather is forecasted to continue into the weekend. The Chief Meteorologist, Ronald Gordon, told us via Zoom that we should expect to see clearer skies on Monday. But until then, there is a flood warning for low lying parts of the country.
Ronald Gordon - Chief Meteorologist
"We have entered a more moist pattern as compared to last week with the passage of a tropical wave and continued through many parts of this week with amounts peaking yesterday we saw in particular Belize City receiving about just 4 inches of rainfall and the rain continued from last night into this morning. This is not totally unusual for October, we have seen in the past whereby we get these heavy down pour in this month and what have been supporting this activity was the passage of a tropical wave and then we had an area of high pressure and high levels in the atmosphere and that provides an area for air to diverge and acts like a pumping mechanism for air to pressure from the surface and develop thunderstorms. So, those combination of factors have supported the moist patterns that we have seen, looking ahead, we expect the high pressure system to move away from us, drift towards the west and as such weather conditions will begin to improve slightly, however we don't expect return to fairer conditions at least through Monday, so we will have rains but we don't expect it to be as intense as has been the case over 24 to 36 hours. In regards to flooding, we do have a flood warning in effect, we issues a flood watch as early as Tuesday before there were any flooding based on the forecast for significant amount of rainfall to occur and we have updated the watch to warning since yesterday because flooding is occurring and with the rainfalls that are expected to continue and to return again tonight, possibly got there to be urban flooding remains, so we will maintain that warning at least throughout the next 24 hours or so."
