The Meteorological Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of Portland, St. Mary, Kingston and St. Andrew, St. Catherine, Clarendon and Manchester effective until 5:00p.m. today.
According to the weather service, a lingering Trough system across Jamaica continues to produce unstable weather conditions.
This has resulted in moderate to heavy showers being recorded mainly over eastern parishes based on automatic weather station reports, last night into this morning.
The forecast is for a continuation of the showers and isolated thunderstorms especially over eastern and south central parishes and later to remaining parishes this afternoon into tonight.
Flash flooding is therefore a possibility over low-lying and flood-prone areas of eastern and south-central parishes. Based on the forecast, the flash flood watch could be extended to western parishes if necessary.
