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The Meteorological Service of Jamaica is reminding the public that the hurricane warning will not be lifted until the system moves away from the island and hurricane conditions are no longer affecting the country. Principal Director of the Meteorological Services Branch in the Ministry of Water, Environment and Climate Change, Evan Thompson, said after the hurricane warning is lifted a flash flood warning may come into effect. He was speaking in an interview with JIS News, following a press briefing at the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC), located at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Headquarters on Haining Road in Kingston, on October 27. “It might be a tropical storm warning because tropical storm conditions continue although the hurricane has gone. If that is the situation, we would keep something else in place until that threat has already passed,” Mr. Thompson said. “We don’t actually use the term all clear, but that would normally be used by ODPEM and the disaster managers who would afterwards say there is an all clear, meaning that everything, all the hazards will no longer have a real impact on us and people can basically go about their business,” he continued. Conditions relating to Hurricane Melissa are currently affecting the island.
