Tropical Storm Sara makes landfall in Honduras, brings heavy rain to Central America

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — 

Tropical Storm Sara made landfall successful bluish Honduras precocious Thursday and threatened to dump torrential rains crossed parts of Central America and confederate Mexico.

Sara deed onshore astir 165 kilometers west-northwest of the Cabo Gracias a Dios connected the Honduras-Nicaragua border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center successful Miami. That is adjacent Brus Laguna, a colony of astir 13,000 inhabitants. There are fewer different colonisation centers nearby.

At 3 a.m.(0900 GMT) the halfway said the tempest was located astir 100 kilometers east, southeast of Belize City successful Honduras with a maximum sustained upwind velocity of 75 kph.

Mexican authorities warned it could origin "intense rains" implicit the resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula.

Sara had winds of astir 75 kph and was moving westbound astatine astir 17 kph.

It was expected to stay astir connected that way earlier heading retired to oversea again and threatening the seashore of Belize.

The halfway said that on the mode Sara was forecast to driblet 25 to 50 centimeters of rain, adjacent up to 75 centimeters successful isolated areas. Such dense rainfall could pb to life-threatening flooding and landslides.

Sara was forecast to walk implicit oregon precise adjacent the tourer destination of Roatan disconnected Honduras' seashore connected Sunday. The tempest was past expected to crook northwesterly toward Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula.