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Flood Threat with New Tropical Depression

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Last update: November 4, 2009 - 2:25 PM

Image Credit: Naval Research Lab Monterey Tropical low pressure gathering over the southwestern Caribbean Sea has become Tropical Depression Eleven as of Wednesday morning, EST. This tropical cyclone will pose a serious flood threat to Central America during the next few days.

Irrespective of the status of the low, which will be that of a depression if not a tropical storm, rainfall heavy enough to trigger potentially serious flooding will pelt areas from Costa Rica to Honduras.

This tropical cyclone will drift to the north and west to the east coast of Nicaragua, where landfall will take place during the afternoon or evening. Once inland, it will drift toward eastern Honduras.

Very heavy rain will fall into the weekend on the Caribbean side in Nicaragua to eastern Honduras, And on the Pscific side, it will pelt Nicaragua and northern Costa Rica.

The highest rainfall of at least 10 inches and potentially even 20 inches within two to three days will threaten serious flooding along with mudslides.

Then, too, damaging, storm-strength winds will be possible along the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.

Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews.

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