On the Phone: Leslie Parham
“Yeah, we are trapped; we cannot cross the river until the water goes down. Never yet, never yet sir, water comes high but never over the farm area that I have, never yet.”
News Five also received images of flooding in San Pedro Colombia.
Chief Meteorologist at the Belize Met Service, Ronald Gordon, explained that the heavy rainfall was caused by a tropical wave passing over the country and intensifying into last night, affecting mainly the south.
Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist
“We had a tropical wave that crossed us. This morning its axis was directly over Belize. It was an active wave. It started affecting the country I would say as early as yesterday morning, and we start having rain falls. Those continued throughout the day and increased last night. The other thing with the particular wave is that it had an area which can vent deep convection, and it allowed the convection to develop and give it a pump to take that air out and allow that thunderstorm to increase and intensify. That is what happens over the past twenty four to thirty-four hour, resulting in heavy rain falls, particularly over the south. One of our stations in Corazon Toledo recorded just over five inches of rain over the past thirty six hours.”