Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The temperatures around the north coast of Honduras will descend six to eight degrees below normal, and will leave 175 millimeters of water due to the rains caused by the cold front that entered the country since Monday and will continue until Sunday.

COPECO authorities also announced winds of 45 kilometers per hour especially in areas near the mountains and strong gusts of wind in the rest of Honduras.

COPECO declared red alert for the department of Atlantida yesterday due to the heavy rains causing rivers to overflow and cause floods in different areas. At least 10 families where evacuated from around the Cangrejal river after it overflowed and threatened the houses nearby. The families where taken to the shelter at the Simon Azcona gymnasium in La Ceiba.

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The rains product of a cold front has caused floods in several communities in Atlantida and Colon. The authorities of COPECO warned that a new mass of cold air will join the cold front surrounding the north coast of Honduras in the next few hours and will generate 48 hours more of rain.

According to COPECO and information from the National Meteorological Service (SMN), the cold front is moving very slowly along the north coast of Honduras and this new phenomenon will bring rains of 150 and 175 millimeters.

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COPECO ordered the immediate evacuation of those citizens in Valle de Sula living near the shores of the Ulua and Chamelecon River because of the increase of the rivers that put the lives of these people at risk.

The communities of Guaruma I,II and III, Chotepe have to take the necessary precautions in this case. The Ulua River is growing even though the rains have decreased. In the next few hours, the Ulua River could grow even more and become very dangerous in its pass through Valle de Sula.

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CORQUIN, Copan.- En enormous dock that covered the channel of the Coyol river, forming an enormous water dam is sinking several communities in this remote region of Honduras.

The local authorities, the military and rescue organizations started to evacuate all the inhabitants from the communities of Suptal in Belen Guancho, Ocotepeque and Suptal in Corquin, Copan.

Thanks to this effort it was possible to save their lives since 78 houses where reduced to nothing because of an avalanche of over 10 acres of land that blocked the water channel of the Coyol River.

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