The tropical disturbance in the western Caribbean is forecast to strengthen this weekend…//
The tropical disturbance off the coast of Honduras is showing signs or organizing into something more serious as it continues its northward journey toward the Gulf of Mexico, meteorologists said Saturday morning.
The Miami Herald reported that In its 8 a.m. update, the National Hurricane Center upgraded the system’s chances of strengthening into a cyclone in the next two days to 80 percent, a jump from Friday’s prediction of 40 percent. A cyclone is either a tropical depression or a tropical storm.
Forecasters are 90 percent confident the system will upgrade into a cyclone in the next five days, likely forming in the northwestern Caribbean Sea or the southern Gulf of Mexico.
It’s moving slowly — about 5 mph — and is expected to bring “torrential” amounts of rain to the Yucatan peninsula, to parts of Central America, and to western Cuba into next week.
Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, tweeted landfall in the United States appears to be around Wednesday somewhere between central Louisiana and the eastern Florida panhandle.
Source: miamiherald.com
