Tropical Storm Sara dropped heavy rain on Honduras on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Sara was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 86.0\u00b0W which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Isla Guanaja,, Honduras.\u00a0 Sara was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the northern coast of Honduras.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Bay Islands of Honduras.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Caribbean coast of Guatemala.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Belize City, Belize to the border with Guatemala.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Sara dropped heavy rain on parts of Honduras on Friday.\u00a0 A weather station in La Ceiba, Honduras measured 21.89 inches (566 mm) of rain in 24 hours.\u00a0 There were reports of flooding in Honduras.<\/p>\n The center of Tropical Storm Sara was just north of the coast of Honduras.\u00a0 Bands of thunderstorms were occurring in the western and southern parts of Sara’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the northern and eastern parts of Tropical Storm Sara consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Sara continued to generate upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n The distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Storm Sara was asymmetrical because the southern half of Sara’s circulation was over land.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 115 miles (185 km) in the northern side of Tropical Storm Sara.\u00a0 The southern side of Sara was over land, and the winds there were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Sara will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Sara will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge over the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the upper level ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 However, the fact that the southern half of Sara’s circulation is over land will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Sara could intensify during the next 24 hours if the the center of Sara’s circulation stays over water.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Sara will move around the southern part of a high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Sara slowly toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Tropical Storm Sara will move along the coast of Honduras.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Sara will bring strong winds to the coast of Honduras and to the Bay Islands.\u00a0 Sara will also continue to drop very heavy rain on Honduras.\u00a0 The fact that Sara is moving so slowly will result in a prolonged period of heavy rain near the coast of Honduras.\u00a0 Prolonged heavy rain will very likely cause catastrophic floods and mudslides.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Sara will also drop heavy rain over Belize and northeastern Guatemala during the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Sara dropped heavy rain on Honduras on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Sara was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 86.0\u00b0W which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Isla Guanaja,, Honduras.\u00a0 Sara was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[877,878,2156,58,3781,450,449,3811,3807,3806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21628,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions\/21628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}