Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist
"Yes, so we are closely monitoring a trough of low pressure currently located currently located over the eastern Caribbean Sea. This system currently has a very low chance of becoming a tropical depression in 48 hours and a medium chance of becoming a tropical depression in about or within the next seven days."

"The system is currently located about a few hundred miles to the south of Puerto Rico and it's forecast to move generally westward across the central and the southwestern Caribbean Sea during the next few days and there are some models that are showing it becoming tropical cyclone somewhere over the southwestern Caribbean Sea or the central Caribbean Sea by the end of the week."

"One particular scenario is for the system to move westward into Nicaragua and make landfall over that country around Saturday with the remnants then moving northwestward towards the Gulf of Honduras, emerging in the Gulf of Honduras or very near the coast of Belize around Saturday morning into Sunday coming and producing intensity and fall over Belize."

"That's one particular scenario at the moment. It is a bit early to say if this particular scenario will come true. We need to bear in mind that we're talking about four to five day timeframe in which the models have a lot of errors or a lot of uncertainty."

"So the main message to the Belizean public is that we need to be on the alert and to monitor the system very closely. It is too early to say when or where or what would be the impact of this system."

"So certainly something to monitor and to be aware of as we go into the next few days. The National Meteorological Service will of course be providing updates on the system as it progresses and if there's a need for us to issue any sort of watches or warnings we will certainly advise NEMO of that need so that the Belizean public can be prepared well to advance of any potential landfall on the country."