Martin becomes season's seventh hurricane - South Florida Sun Sentinel

The sixth and seventh hurricanes of the play formed Wednesday, with Hurricane Lisa processing successful the Caribbean and Hurricane Martin forming successful the north-central Atlantic Ocean.

And, the National Hurricane Center advisory says a 3rd tempest could make by the weekend.

Lisa was poised to marque landfall successful Belize Wednesday, portion Martin churned successful the unfastened Atlantic.

As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, Lisa was located 55 miles east-southeast of Belize City. Lisa was a Category 1 hurricane producing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph and moving westbound astatine 14 mph.

Hurricane watches and tropical tempest watches and warnings are successful effect successful areas of Honduras, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.

After landfall successful Belize, Lisa is forecast to transverse bluish Guatemala and determination into southeastern Mexico by Thursday.

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Martin had apical winds of 75 mph astatine 11 a.m. Wednesday and was moving east-northeast astatine 26 mph. Martin is expected to modulation to a almighty extratropical strategy connected Thursday. It is nary menace to land.

Hurricane Lisa developed successful the Caribbean connected Wednesday arsenic the tempest churned toward landfall successful Belize. (National Hurricane Center)

Lisa could bring 1 inch of rainfall to this week to portions of the Cayman Islands and eastbound Nicaragua.

Jamaica, Mexico’s eastbound Yucatan Peninsula, bluish Honduras and Guatemala could spot 2 to 4 inches of rain, with up to 6 inches successful localized areas.

Belize, Honduras’ Bay Islands, bluish Guatemala and portion of southeastern Mexico could spot flash flooding and 4 to 6 inches of rain, with localized totals of up to 10 inches, the National Hurricane Center said.

In summation to Hurricane Lisa and Hurricane Martin, the National Hurricane Center is besides monitoring an country adjacent the eastbound Caribbean for imaginable development. (National Hurricane Center)

Forecasters are besides monitoring a 3rd imaginable storm, an country of debased unit successful the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. The country could determination into the eastbound Caribbean and make implicit the weekend, the hurricane halfway said successful its 8 a.m. advisory. It has 20% accidental of processing arsenic it moves north.

There person been 2 large hurricanes, meaning Category 3 oregon above, truthful acold this season. NOAA has predicted betwixt 2 and six much hurricanes to signifier earlier hurricane play officially ends connected Nov. 30.

The adjacent named tempest to signifier volition beryllium Nicole.