?n Tuesday afternoon the Department of Meteorology issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms on Wednesday. The alert remains in effect from 02:00 until 18:00 today.
Isolated, intense thunderstorms are expected to affect the western half of the island intermittently at first, spreading to other areas from midday onwards, the Department of Meteorology said, adding that rainfall intensity is expected to range between 35 and 55 millimeters per hour, and hail is also possible.
During the thunderstorms, wind gusts may occasionally reach 7 to 8 on the Beaufort scale, it concluded.