Go-Jamaica Weather Watch

The parish of Portland has been experiencing heavy rainfall since 8.45 p.m. last night 

Conditions worsened with high winds this morning sometime between 4.15 and 4.45 a.m.

Sections of Bryan’s Bay in Portland seem to be receiving the worst of the weather.

The sea along the main road, which leads from Bryan’s Bay into Port Antonio has already overridden the retaining wall and is now dumping sand and debris along the road.

Motorists have been asked to take precautions in the area and have, in fact, been told to take an alternate route through Boundbrook Crescent.

The Manchioneal area of Portland also has a real problem, where at least two houses have lost sections of their roofs. There the sea has also overstepped its boundaries and is threatening to make flooding, which is already occurring worse.

Norwich Primary and Manchioneal All-Age School have already opened for the purposes of sheltering those most affected.

Nobody has been moved yet but as conditions worsen this is expected to happen. 90 per cent of shelters have been reported functional with shelter managers on high alert.

In the meantime, over in St Thomas, there have just been patches of rain and there have been no reports of damages.