Tropical Storm Sara drenches Honduras’ northern coast

Tropical Storm Sara stalled implicit Honduras Saturday, drenching the bluish seashore of the Central American federation and swelling rivers.

The country could spot life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides done the weekend, according to the Miami-based U.S National Hurricane Center.

Sustained rainfall fell overnight and continued into Saturday greeting successful the metropolis of San Pedro Sula, wherever determination were nary contiguous signs of superior flooding.

People watched nervously arsenic conditions brought backmost memories of the disastrous November 2020 hurricane season, erstwhile 2 almighty storms passed done the region, displacing hundreds of thousands of radical and causing wide damage.

The upwind strategy made landfall precocious Thursday astir 165 kilometers west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios, connected the Honduras-Nicaragua border.

The Hurricane Center expects the tempest volition determination adjacent the Bay Islands of Honduras connected Saturday earlier approaching Belize.

Sara is past expected to crook northwesterly toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, though forecasters said it astir apt volition not reemerge into the Gulf aft crossing the Yucatan.

In November 2020, Eta and Iota passed done Honduras aft initially making landfall successful Nicaragua arsenic almighty Category 4 hurricanes. Northern Honduras caught the worst of the storms with torrential rains and flooding that displaced hundreds of thousands. Eta unsocial was liable for arsenic overmuch arsenic 70 centimeters of rainfall on the bluish coast.