MIAMI, Florida – Tropical Storm Julia leaves heavy rains spreading across Central America. Heavy rain, flooding and mudslides are forecast over Central America and southern Mexico through Tuesday.
According to Monday’s 2am ET bulletin According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the system was located 45 miles east-southeast of San Salvador, El Salvador.
The cyclone has maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour and is moving west at a speed of 15 mph.
Julia’s eye is expected to continue moving across Nicaragua today and out over the Pacific coast tonight. Julia would then move very close to and parallel to the Pacific coasts of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala tonight and Monday.
According to NHC projections, additional weakening is forecast over the next two days, but Julia is still expected to remain a tropical storm as it moves near the Pacific coasts of Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador tonight and Monday. Julia is expected to dissipate off the coast of Guatemala on Monday night.
NOTICES AND SURVEILLANCE IN FORCE
tropical storm warning
- The entire Pacific coast of Nicaragua
- The entire Pacific coast of Honduras
- The entire coast of El Salvador
Tropical Storm Watch
- Pacific Coast of Guatemala
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