Tropical storm sweeps in from Pacific

The hurricane season doesn’t officially begin for another two weeks, but here we are, still in midst of a record drought…with a named storm on our doorstep–that is our back doorstep. Jacqueline Woods has more.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
Tropical storms in the Pacific Ocean rarely threaten Central America. That is why this unusual weather system named Adrian has many people living in this part of the world scratching their heads and shopping for rubber boots.

Derrick Rudon, Forecaster
?This storm is unusual because of the projected path, of the path that it is expected to take. It is a couple hundred miles south of Guatemala and is expected to move to the northeast over El Salvador and Honduras and then re-emerge into the northwest Caribbean just north of Honduras near the bay islands.?

Because the system is expected to pasS well south of Belize, the country is not expected to be directly affected. However, some parts of the country should experience more rain than normal as the system passes across the isthmus.

Derrick Rudon
?Because the system is passing to the south of us, the south could see more rain than the north. We are expecting outbreaks of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow and Friday, possibly heavy at times and possibly causing some localised flooding.?

Rudon says at this time they cannot say exactly how much rainfall is expected, but if the storm continues on its projected path by Saturday we should see a decrease in the rain. Because weather systems are difficult to predict, the best advice the weather folks have is closely monitor the storm. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Centre in Miami say Adrian may reach hurricane strength before it makes landfall somewhere along the Guatemalan coast on Thursday.