THE National Hurricane Centre has informed territories in the Northern Atlantic and Caribbean Basin of the formation of the seventh tropical system of the 2020 Northern Atlantic and Caribbean Hurricane season.

This system was first reported as a tropical depression at 17:00hrs on July 21, 2020, but was subsequently upgraded to a tropical storm (TS) around 09:00hrs on July 22, 2020.

In a release, the Hydrometeorological Service here said that the National Hurricane Centre informs that at 11:00hrs 22 July, 2020, the centre of tropical storm Gonzalo was located at 9.9 ºN 43.6 º W, which is about one thousand six hundred fifty Kilometres (1650 Km) to the east-north-east of Georgetown. The system is moving towards the west at a speed of 6 m/s. Meteorological models are indicating that the centre of this tropical system may be to the north of Guyana in the Atlantic Ocean as a hurricane between 20:00hrs, July 24 and 08:00hrs, July25.

What can Guyana expect?
Unless this system changes its trajectory and begins to travel towards the south-west of its current position, or it increases to in excess of four hundred Kilometres (400 Km), which is very improbable, TS Gonzalo is not expected to directly impact Guyana. Nevertheless, this system may create favourable conditions over northern Guyana that may result in thundershowers. The extent of these thundershowers and the location (s) of impact are not exactly known at this time, but as soon as a determination can be made the Hydrometeorological Service shall communicate the necessary warnings to the citizens of Guyana.
The Hydrometeorological Service said it will continue to monitor the situation and will provide updates as the need arises. Citizens are encouraged to subscribe, using the instructions provided in the link below to receive severe-weather warnings from the Hydrometeorological Service on their mobile devices.
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