Tropical Storm Sara leaves at least one dead after passing through Honduras and is a “potentially catastrophic threat” to Central America

( Spanish) – The passage of tropical storm Sara through Honduras left at least one dead and affected 56,958 people in the country, according to the most recent report from the national government. The report indicates that there are 2,323 people affected, 1,961 evacuated and 3,229 sheltered.

After passing through Honduras, the NHC reported this Sunday that Sara was inland over Belize and had sustained winds with a maximum speed of 65 km/h. The NHC added that heavy rain is expected to continue as it moves inland over parts of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The tropical storm warning is in effect for the Caribbean Sea coast of Guatemala, the coast of Belize and the coast of Mexico from Puerto Costa Maya southward to Chetumal, the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported. acronym in English).

The Juan Manuel Gálvez airports, in Roatán; Golosón, in La Ceiba, and Toncontín, in Tegucigalpa, temporarily closed due to the emergency caused by the intense rains left in its wake by tropical storm Sara in Honduras, the Honduran Civil Aeronautics Agency (AHAC) reported this Friday through the social network

On Thursday, President Xiomara Castro announced that all citizens should move to shelters away from rivers and warned that the storm could become a catastrophic event.

The United States embassy in Tegucigalpa announced the sending of aid through the Honduran authorities to the area affected by Sara, according to a statement published on its official account on X.

Multiple scenarios for what could happen to Sara after its interaction with Honduras and the Yucatan Peninsula were possible earlier this week, but one appears to be prevailing and is good news for a US Gulf Coast exhausted after having been hit by five hurricanes this year.

Sara is likely to have too much interaction with land in Central America and Mexico to survive in the Gulf of Mexico early next week as originally forecast, according to the NHC Thursday afternoon.

For its part, the National Meteorological Service of Mexico announced the installation of a prevention zone due to the passage of the storm, according to a statement released by the National Water Commission (Conagua).

The statement details that heavy to very intense rains are expected in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche.

With information from Elvin Sandoval and Verónica Calderón from .