Tropical storm Lisa formed on Halloween in the western Caribbean Sea. It is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday afternoon, shortly before landfall.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) during its 5 o’clock warning: 00 pm this Monday stated that Lisa has sustained winds of 45 miles per hour and is moving west toward Central America at 14 mph.
The storm is expected to hit a region of Central America from Honduras and north along the coasts of Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico on Wednesday. Current road has eyewall touching land in Belize.
The United States and the Gulf of Mexico will not be affected by Lisa, according to data from the NHC website.
“Hurricane conditions are possible in the Bay Islands of Honduras by early Wednesday and along the coast of Belize by Wednesday afternoon, where a hurricane watch has been issued. ”, stated the NHC. “Tropical storm conditions are possible in parts of Jamaica, the northern coast of Honduras, the Caribbean coast of Guatemala, and the southeastern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.”
Storm surge expected along the coast of Belize as the Lisa moves inshore, as well as local flash flooding in nearby countries.
Once a defined tropical system reaches 35 miles per hour, it becomes a tropical storm. It becomes a category 1 hurricane when it reaches a minimum sustained wind of 74 miles per hour.
Although the tropical systems in the Atlantic season have had a fairly inactive season, this storm arrives just after the Hurricanes Ian and Julia in the last month.
Ian flattened Florida on 28 September as a thunderstorm category 4 high level and left more than 100 dead, hundreds injured and hundreds of thousands displaced and without electricity or running water for at least more than a week.
Ian crossed Florida to the northeast, wreaking havoc in Orlando and Jacksonville. Ian was downgraded to a tropical storm, but regained Category 1 strength before making landfall again in South Carolina.
Julia took a path somewhat similar to Ian’s. Both storms started in the Atlantic, about 10-12 degrees north of the equator. Ian turned north once he reached the Caribbean, but Julia stayed on the westward path. Julia continued to make landfall as a category 1 storm in Nicaragua on October 8.
Hurricane season, which begins annually on May 1, officially ends on 28 of November. There are no other tropical systems in the Atlantic or Pacific basins at the time, according to the hurricane center.
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