The latest 6:00 pm update from NEMO on Tropical Storm Sara confirms that it maintains maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, while it continues to move west at two miles per hour. A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the entire coast of Belize, including all the Cayes in Belizean waters.
But as we have been stressing the main threat from this system will be heavy rainfall and flood warnings remain in effect. Here's the chief hydrologist.
Tennielle Hendy, Chief Hydrologist
"We still have our flood warnings in effect for the Rio Hondo, The Macal, Mopan and Belize rivers. Of interesting concern is that on the Belize River the levels at the crooked tree lagoon are increasing but they are expected to remain below the causeway. The Three dam facilities are still spilling and what we are seeing in the north is the decreasing flood levels which is expected at Blue Creek, Santa Cruz, San Antonio, San Roman and Douglas we are now seeing those flood waters increasing towards the coast. Moving right into our flash flooding update as you can see the soil moisture is very high and saturated in this central region of the country. We do not have any eminent flash flood threats in any of our model time series which is 1, 3 and 6 hour. Same is for the persistent flash flood threats and for our flash flood guidance. Of not we are seeing positive indications for landslides in the country. You can see if here for Honduras but for Belize we just have some areas in the north that we will need to be monitoring for landslides."
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