System in Caribbean to move inland over Central America – South Florida Sun Sentinel

A disturbance in the western Caribbean is no longer expected to develop into a tropical depression or storm as it moves toward Central America.

The system is not expected to develop further before it reaches land by Saturday, though it is still likely to bring heavy rain to Central America, including Nicaragua and Honduras, throughout the weekend, with the possibility for flash flooding and mudslides, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 8 p.m. Friday, it has a 10% chance of developing in the next two to seven days, and the systems showers and thunderstorms remained disorganized.

So far this season in the Atlantic, there have been 19 named storms, seven of which were hurricanes. Of those, three were major hurricanes, meaning Category 3 or above.

Those were Hurricane Lee, a rare Category 5; Hurricane Franklin, a Category 4; and Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall on Floridas Big Bend region at Category 3 strength on Aug. 30.

The remaining storm names for 2023 are Vince and Whitney. If all those names end up being used this season, the National Hurricane Center would turn to the supplemental list of names from the World Meteorological Association. In previous years, the Greek alphabet was used for additional storm names which had only happened twice before during the record-shattering hurricane seasons in 2005 and 2020.

Hurricane season officially runs through Nov. 30.

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