Keep yourselves hydrated.

This is the advice from acting director of the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorologist Services, Emmanuel Mulchan, to the public, in light of the soaring temperatures the country has recently been experiencing.

Scores of people have been expressing concern about the scorching heat in recent days, although we are in the hurricane and rainy season.

The Piarco Met Office, Mulchan told the Express, recorded a maximum temperature of 34 degrees Celsius on Friday and Saturday. Mulchan explained that the temperature recorded is actually recorded in the shade, so the temperature in other parts of the country could be anywhere between three and four degrees higher.

’The warmest time of the year for us is during the months of September and October,’ Mulchan explained on Saturday.

’It is the time of the year that the temperature soars. We had a lot of people calling last year and asking the same thing.’

Mulchan said the country was also experiencing dry air at the time.

’We are also a getting a breakdown in the wind, which will cause very little ventilation,’ he said.

’You need to ensure that you don’t become dehydrated. Drink a lot of water. Try to stay out of the direct rays of the sun.’

However, Mulchan anticipated that the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) will begin to affect Trinidad and Tobago during this week, which will ease the heat.

The ITCZ is a term used to describe the North-East and South-East trade wind convergence, which appears as a band of clouds, usually thunderstorms, that circle the globe near the equator.