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As of Wednesday, May 22, 2013

7.10pm: At a press conference today, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) revealed thousands of Bahamians were affected by flooding in the aftermath of last night's storm that carried on into this morning.

A warning has been sent out to those who experienced severe flooding, not to drink well water but bottled water or city water, instead. If well water must be used, it should be boiled first.

Those with water inside their homes are also asked not to use electricity. If any persons are in need of evacuation, they are asked to contact the department of Social Services for assessment.

NEMA noted that most of the flooding took place in eastern New Providence, with some areas experiencing waters more than one-foot high.

• Earlier: Weather forecast for The Bahamas for the rest of today and tonight, rainfall figures for last night and COB closure information:

General situation: An upper level trough continues to affect the northwest and central Bahamas, creating some unsettled weather over the area today.

For the Northwest and Central Bahamas:

Weather: Cloudy to overcast with widely scattered showers and embedded thunderstorms with afternoon clearing over the northwest Bahamas.

Southeast Bahamas: Weather: Partly sunny and warm with few showers today turning fair and mild tonight.

Gusty winds and higher seas during showers and thunderstorms.

Forecast for Thursday: Weather: Partly sunny and warm turning fair at nighttime.

Here are the rainfall totals:

Lynden Plindling International Airport (LPIA) Average for the month of May: 4.54 inches 24 hour Rainfall for LPIA: 4.35 inches(8am Tuesday 21st. to 8am Wednesday 22nd.) Record Rainfall for May at LPIA: 5.74 inches.

Around the island 24 hr totals: Elizabeth Estates Police Station: 12.79 inches; Camperdown: 15.29 inches; Fox Hill: 15.00 inches; Stapleton Gardens: 3.16 inches; LPIA: 4.35 inches.

COB:

THE Oakes Field and Grosvenor Campuses of The College of The Bahamas, including Chapter One Bookstore and the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre, are closed today (Wednesday, May 22, 2013).

As a result, all classes are cancelled today. However, essential service personnel the Physical Plant and Security departments are required to report for duty as normal.

The College is expected to resume normal operations tomorrow.

B_I_D___ 11 years, 6 months ago

This is about the most PRO-active alert I have seen the met office give on random weather issues...more often than not, like yesterday, you are a couple hours into the heat of the bad weather and up pops an alert...oh, by the way, in case you did not look out your window, some bad weather should have started a couple hours ago, and you may see it for a couple more hours...come on people...let's be a bit more forthcoming with some weather predictions please.

ThisIsOurs 11 years, 6 months ago

Funny but true...I was sitting by the window at work when the trees started bowing violently and I said " what is that?!":) they may not have the equipment though...I wonder how many contracts were awarded in the last year vs cost of upgrading such a critical system....