The National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) has extended solidarity to the CDEMA participating states that received minor damage from the impact of Tropical Storm Bret.
Reports came in earlier that St. Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia had heavy rainfall, rough seas, power outages, damage to roofs, and flooding in some areas.
Here at home the Meteorological Office at the Maurice Bishop International Airport informed the National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) that at 11 am, Tropical Storm Bret was over the Eastern Caribbean near 13.3 degrees North, 64.7 West, or 205 nautical miles west of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, moving west at 18 knot.
Maximum sustained wind speed is 50 kt with gusts to 60.
Convection has diminished from earlier as Bret moves into the Eastern Caribbean, but scattered showers and thunderstorms persist within 105 nautical miles from the center of Bret.
Meantime all eyes are set on Tropical Storm Cindy which was over the tropical Atlantic near 12.5N 48.0W, 795 nm east of the Lesser Antilles, moving WNW at 13 knot.
Estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 mb.
Maximum sustained wind speed is 45 kt with gusts to 55.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are active within 150 nautical miles of the center.
Cindy is expected to maintain tropical storm strength as it moves to the northeast of the Leeward Islands through Sunday.
The system poses no direct threat to the state of Grenada.
The Meteorological Office will continue to monitor the systems and provide updates in a timely manner.
