No image available
/ 4 September 2007

Central America braces for powerful Hurricane Felix

Tens of thousands of people hunkered in storm shelters on Tuesday as Hurricane Felix roared toward Central America, but transport shortages left many facing the storm’s whipping winds and rain in their homes. The category-four hurricane, due to make landfall around mid-morning, charged toward Honduras and Nicaragua with top sustained winds of 215km/h.

No image available
/ 3 September 2007

Hurricane Felix, a potentially catastrophic storm with 260km/h winds, threatened on Monday to plow along the Caribbean coast of Honduras and dump torrential rain across Central America. Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize posted hurricane alerts.

No image available
/ 21 November 2005

Tropical Storm Gamma continues to weaken

Tropical Storm Gamma weakened into a tropical depression and was losing more strength as it drifted off the coast of Honduras on Sunday night after killing 11 people in Honduras and three in nearby Belize. Gamma, the 24th named storm of an already record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to bring rain to northern Honduras and central Cuba as it becomes less organised and dissipates.

No image available
/ 20 November 2005

Tropical storm Gamma kills six in Honduras

Tropical Storm Gamma deluged the Caribbean coast of Central America on Saturday, killing at least six people — three in flooding in Honduras and three in the crash of a small plane belonging to a lodge owned by United States filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. On Saturday night, Gamma was moving at 10kph and was located about 400km east of the Belizean capital, Belize City.