Eta is expected to re-strength over the Caribbean Sea this weekend and could approach South Florida early next week after bringing flooding rainfall to Central America over the next few days.
Life-Threatening Flooding Continues In Central America
Written content by The Weather Channel meteorologists
Eta has become very disorganized due to its interaction with the mountainous terrain of Central America. Catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding could occur in some parts of Central America through this weekend, according to the NHC. Landslides are possible in areas with mountainous terrain.
Eta could dissipate for a time as it tracks farther inland through Central America, but that doesn’t mean the forecast for this system comes to an end.
The remnant spin and energy from Eta are expected to emerge over the northwest Caribbean Sea on Friday. That’s when Eta could reorganize into a depression or storm, as depicted in the latest forecast above from the National Hurricane Center.
Eta will be steered northeastward initially once it moves back over the northwest Caribbean beginning Friday. That’s because Eta will be pushed in that direction by the interaction with the counterclockwise flow around an upper-level low-pressure system located in the Gulf of Mexico, as seen in the graphic below.
Eta is expected to interact or even combine with the upper low by this weekend. That could allow Eta to be pulled northward to just south of or even over the southern Florida Peninsula as a tropical or subtropical storm by early next week.
Eta could then be pulled westward into the eastern Gulf of Mexico by both that same upper low diving southward in the Gulf and an upper-level high-pressure system over the eastern states. Eta may meander for a few days before it is drawn northward by an upper-level trough. Learn more from The Weather Channel.
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