Tropical Storm Lisa takes aim while hurricane center eyes 2nd system - Orlando Sentinel

Tropical Storm Lisa continued to plow toward Central America successful the Caribbean portion the National Hurricane Center says a strategy successful the Atlantic is apt to signifier into a short-lived named tropical oregon subtropical tempest today.

As of 8 a.m., Tropical Storm Lisa was located astir 220 miles southbound of Grand Cayman and 480 miles eastbound of Belize City, Belize with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph heading westbound astatine 14 mph.

“Strengthening is expected, and Lisa is forecast to go a hurricane by aboriginal Wednesday implicit the northwestern Caribbean Sea,” said NHC elder hurricane specializer Eric Blake.

Tropical Storm Lisa cone of uncertainty arsenic of 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (National Hurricane Center)

Hurricane conditions are expected successful the Bay Islands of Honduras opening aboriginal Wednesday and on the seashore of Belize by Wednesday afternoon.

Tropical-storm-force winds widen retired up to 105 miles.

A hurricane ticker is successful effect for the Bay Islands and parts of the Belize seashore with a tropical tempest informing for the full seashore of Honduras.

The strategy is expected to driblet 3 to 5 inches with immoderate areas with arsenic overmuch arsenic 8 inches crossed parts of Belize and the Bay Islands, and 2 to 4 inches with immoderate areas arsenic overmuch arsenic 6 inches successful portions of Jamaica, the eastbound Yucatan Peninsula, Northern Honduras, and Guatemala that could pb to flash flooding.

The tropical outlook arsenic of 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (National Hurricane Center)

Meanwhile successful the Atlantic Ocean, the likelihood of a nontropical country of debased unit to turn into a named tempest grew overnight from 10% to 90%.

Located respective 100 miles east-northeast of Bermuda, the debased and associated thunderstorm enactment has been forming much tropical characteristics successful the past day.

“Environmental conditions look conducive for further development. The strategy is apt to go a tropical oregon subtropical tempest aboriginal contiguous portion it moves mostly east-northeastward,” forecasters said.

If it forms, it volition instrumentality the sanction Martin.

“By precocious Wednesday nighttime oregon aboriginal Thursday, the strategy is expected to go afloat extratropical and merge with a larger nontropical debased implicit the north-central Atlantic,” forecasters said.

The Atlantic hurricane play runs done Nov. 30. The season’s 13 named systems done Lisa are conscionable shy of the NOAA forecast for 2022, but adjacent though tropical enactment was astir nonexistent successful July and August, September brought the deadly Hurricane Ian that struck Florida.

The NOAA has predicted to beryllium an supra mean play with 14 to 21 named tropical storms. This follows 2020′s grounds 30 named systems and 2021′s 21 named storms.