WITH an Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) interacting with an Easterly wave, heavy rainfall battered Guyana’s coastland late Tuesday night into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, resulting in the highest rainfall of 179.7mm or 7.07 inches being recorded at De Kindren Back, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara).

The Hydromet Department of the Ministry of Agriculture noted that the reading was among rainfall data gathered for the past 24 hours and measured at 08:00hrs on August 14, 2019. That was available for most of the stations.

A weather brief had stated partly-cloudy to cloudy skies with showers and thunder showers over inland areas, with other areas enjoying partly cloudy and sunny skies with no significant rainfall.

Between 19:00hrs last night and 07:00hrs today, the forecasters had predicted that there would be cloudy skies with moderate showers and thunder showers over Regions Seven, Eight and One (Barima-Waini) in the North West.

In the early morning, coastal areas can expect partly-cloudy to cloudy skies with occasional showers measuring between 20.0mm and 30.0 mm (0.79 and 1.18 inches).
However other areas will have no significant rainfall which should measure 0.0 and 15.0 mm.

Meanwhile, above normal high tides measuring 2.92 metres at 03:54hrs is expected today, Thursday, August 15 and on Friday at 16:22hrs with a height of 2.74 metres.