Tropical Depression One
Position: 16.7N 84.4 W [10 PM CST 0300 UTC].
Movement: West Northwest [295°] near 9 mph [15 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1004 mb.
It is 255 miles [415 km] East Southeast of Belize City.
A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for the coast of Belize and and the East Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula from Chetumal to Cancun, Mexico.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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Hmmm. It looks as if one place or another that Stella has lived will be struck. (She spent a summer doing research in Belize a few years ago.) With no disrespect to Belize, I’d just as soon the storm doesn’t come to Houston.
Under current conditions in the Caribbean and Gulf, it is quite capable of doing both. OTOH, it has been trending more to the West, so it may stay to the South and go inland on the West side of the Bay of Campeche.
Hurricane Opal in 1995 started out like this, so I don’t like storms that pop up down there.