Tropical Storm Sara

Tropical Storm Sara was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that caused severe flooding in northern Central America in November 2024. The eighteenth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Sara developed from a disturbance over the central Caribbean Sea associated with a tropical wave. It consolidated into a tropical depression early on November 14, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Sara later that same day. The next day, the storm made landfall in Punta Patuca Honduras and slowly moved parallel through the northern coast. Later, on the morning of November 17, Sara made a second landfall near Dangriga, Belize. Inland, the storm weakened into a tropical depression, then degenerated into a remnant low while over Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Overall, Sara killed 12 people, caused two people to go missing, and inflicted approximately US$139 million in damage.