Tropical Storm Paula formed this afternoon.

The storms outflow is located off to the northeast of the center of the storm and this should act as an anchor on its movement and cause the storm to move more towards the north rather than to the west.

Belize may only experience a few showers, drifting off from the extreme western edge of the system.

The low pressure trough is still stuck between Cuba and Panama. It refuses to move toward Central America.

The weather over Belize remains cool and dry.

The OMEGA block previously mentioned is finally breaking down allowing a band of light showers to approach Central America. I do not expect any significant rainfall from this system.

In general the weather making systems in the Caribbean are very weak. Geophysical activity is low and the sun is clear of any sunspots. Therefore, there is nothing out there to stir up a big storm.

The Caribbean is still under the influence of an "Omega" block.
Weather systems are pretty much stationary.
This block is making it sort of difficult for any hurricanes to form and move towards Central America.
The chances of Belize getting hit by a hurricane this year are becoming more remote by the day.

The weather over the past 2 days has been uneventful.

Just a nice cool westerly breeze and dry air. great weather for working outdoors.

We are in a weather block over the Caribbean basin where systems are not moving very much. Just forming and collapsing over the same area. Going to see what happens tomorrow.

This is what is left of Tropical Storm NICOLE. The storm produced severe flooding in Jamaica.

The storm has little affect on Belize. Just some scattered showers and a refreshing west wind.

A 1003 mb low just off northern Belize this evening, generated a moderate thunder shower which covered an area from Belmopan to northern Belize. This system did not produce much rainfall, maybe only 12mm.

By 9PM local time the storm cell had dissipated. However, shortly after 9PM the system re-developed and rain continued for most of the night. By the next morning I measured about 40mm of rainfall. This low pressure was probably connected with tropical depression 16 which was soon to become tropical storm NICOLE.

TD Matthew is now history and has disappeared over Mexico.

At my location I measured only 50 mm of rainfall due directly to Matthew.

Today is sunny and about 31C. There is a lot of activity in the Caribbean southeast of Jamaica and this may head this way for Tuesday.

TS Matthew has weakened considerably and is no longer a threat to Belize.
Only the southern most part of the country has received significant rainfall.

TS Matthew

The storm has considerably weaken since my last report.

The rainfall may be much less than previously anticipated.

I do not expect the storm to survive the night!