Weather officials say that Tropical Storm Earl has formed in the Caribbean as of Tuesday afternoon on Aug. 2.
Warnings have been issued across Central America.
Earl was found “in the northwestern Caribbean Sea,” the fifth tropical storm of the 2016 hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said at 12 p.m. ET.
The governments of Mexico and Belize issued a Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch for the eastern portion of the Yucatan peninsula from Punta Allen, Mexico, to Mexico’s border with Belize and Guatemala.
Meanwhile, Honduras issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the entire northern coast of the country, from Cabo Gracias a Dios westward to the Honduras-Guatemala border, which includes the Bay Islands.
Tropical Storm Earl is now centered in the Caribbean Sea with the island of Hispaniola located north of the tropical system. NOAA/Satellite
