THE METEOROLOGICAL Service is closely monitoring the progress of Tropical Storm Lili which could become a hurricane today, and which was located 1125 kilometres east southeast of Morant Point, Jamaica last night.
Lili is moving towards the west and the current projections would see the centre about 200 kilometres south of the Dominican Republic by this afternoon and to move over western Haiti near midday tomorrow.
Based on where Lili is now, she could move outside the projections and be in the Jamaican area by tomorrow to Friday, the Meteorological Office says.
Therefore fishermen on the cays and banks, especially those on the Morant and Pedro Cays, are urged to complete their preparations and be on the alert to evacuate should it become necessary.
Meanwhile, the flood warning has been lifted as satellite imagery indicates that spiral bands associated with Tropical Storm Isidore have moved westward away from Jamaica and are not expected to further influence weather conditions over the island.
Sections of the island still continue to recover from Isidore however, and at last report, 95 persons including 15 children were sheltering at the Bethel Baptist Church in Bushy Park, St. Catherine, according to the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM). These persons are from the Bushy Park and Nightingale Grove areas which were flooded out.
Because of this, Southwest St. Catherine Member of Parliament Jennifer Edwards is calling upon the Ministry of Transport and Works to carry out a technical assessment of a number of areas in the constituency to determine the reasons for the extensive flooding caused by the rains. A number of drains and culverts remain blocked.
