Tropical Storm Sara drenches the northern coast of Honduras, a country in Central America, with mudslides and flash flooding expected.
Tropical Storm Sara, which lingered over Honduras and soaked the country’s northern coast, causing rivers to overflow and trapping some residents at home, began to pick up speed on Saturday. The National Hurricane Center, based in Miami, warned that mudslides and potentially fatal flash flooding might occur over the weekend.
Approximately 105 miles (165 kilometers) west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios, near the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, the weather system touched down late Thursday. Before reaching land in Belize, the hurricane was predicted by the Hurricane Center to continue its “somewhat faster motion west-northwestward” trajectory into the Gulf of Honduras on Saturday and into Sunday.
Residents were tense Saturday due to the rainy weather, which reminded them of the devastating hurricane season in November 2020, when two strong hurricanes swept through the area, causing extensive damage and uprooting hundreds of thousands of people. On Friday in San Pedro Sula, however, a CONCACAF Nations League soccer match went on despite the hurricane. Mexico lost against Honduras 2-0 as it was pouring rain.
Storms Eta and Iota originated as strong Category 4 hurricanes in Nicaragua and then moved across Honduras in November 2020. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by flooding caused by the storms’ worst effects, which were felt in northern Honduras.
Belize is on high alert due to a tropical storm. Sara Brings Heavy Rain to the Honduran Coast
As Tropical Storm Sara stalled in the western Caribbean, dumping heavy rain on the northern coast of Honduras, Belize issued tropical storm warnings for the Central American nation’s coast on Friday.
In the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, heavy rain poured during the night, although there were no immediate signs of significant flooding. On the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, around 105 miles (165 kilometers) west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios, the weather system made an impact late Thursday, according to the center. About 13,000 people live in the village of Brus Laguna, which is close by. Few other populated locations are close by.
Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by flooding caused by the storms’ worst effects, which were felt in northern Honduras. The northern shore received up to 30 inches of rain due to Eta alone.
Overnight, Sara returned to the Caribbean, and by Friday morning, she was situated just south of the island of Roatan, which is a little tourist resort.
Approximately 160 miles (255 kilometers) southeast of Belize City, the storm was moving west at 2 mph (4 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph), according to the hurricane center’s most recent update. Sara was predicted to stay mostly on that course and threaten Belize’s coastline during the weekend, before possibly gaining some power.
According to the hurricane center’s most recent update, the storm was located approximately 160 miles (255 kilometers) southeast of Belize City and moving west at 2 mph (4 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph).
Sara was predicted to stay mostly on that course and threaten Belize’s coastline during the weekend, before possibly gaining some power. Over the Yucatan Peninsula, which is home to several resorts, Mexican authorities issued a warning that it would bring “intense rains. “Although forecasts stated it is unlikely to resurface into the Gulf after crossing the Yucatan, it is then anticipated to head northwesterly towards the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
During a slow weekend crawl, Sara dumped heavy rainfall throughout parts of Central America after forming in the western Caribbean Sea and then making landfall on Honduras’ northern coast on Thursday. According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm is predicted to cross over Belize on Sunday before dissipating over the Yucatan Peninsula early on Monday. The Center also stated that it might dump up to 40 inches (101.6 cm) of rain in certain places.