The tropical disturbance just to the east of Belize has organized further this morning, and is now a tropical depression, says the National Hurricane Center.
Forecast track for Tropical Depression Two. (National Hurricane Center)
Forecasters expect the storm to move across Belize, Guatemala and Mexico during the next day, before possibly re-emerging into the Bay of Campeche on Tuesday. There it has brief window to become a tropical storm before moving into Mexico for a final landfall, probably to the south of Tampico.
It’s lucky that much of this system’s core is over Central America at this time — it has developed rather quickly despite the proximity to land — because it otherwise had the potential to develop into a hurricane.
This system is unlikely to have any significant weather effects on Texas. We can thank the high pressure that’s bringing us lots of heat and blue skies for that.
