North Coast

A cold front is forecast to arrive in northern Honduras this weekend, potentially bringing heavy rain, lightning, and flooding risk to cities including San Pedro Sula, El Progreso, and Puerto Cortés, with officials monitoring its development.

NASA and Mexican university satellites provide near-daily tracking of sargassum accumulations drifting across the Caribbean toward Honduras's northern coast, with public tools like UNAM's Sargassum Viewer allowing beachgoers to monitor patches and check their distance from shore.

As sargassum seaweed threatens Honduras's most-visited beach destination ahead of the Morazán holiday, Tela's municipal government has activated cleanup crews and contingency plans to protect tourism and public access to the shoreline.

Climate expert César Quintanilla projects Honduras's 2026 rainy season will end by late October, with little to no rainfall expected in November when cold fronts typically arrive, except for sporadic showers on the north coast.

Edwin Ramos and his son Wilder were fatally attacked during a birthday celebration in Sabá, Colón, on September 13; police are investigating the motive and searching for the suspect.

President Asfura presented infrastructure priorities for the Atlantic region including CA-13 highway rehabilitation (with $180 million from the World Bank and Spain), the La Barca–Tela route expansion, and Guillermo Anderson Airport modernization, aimed at improving connectivity and investment.

Entrepreneurs from El Progreso, Tela, and La Ceiba are demanding urgent construction of the CA-13 Tourism Corridor's four-lane La Barca–El Progreso segment, a long-delayed project they say is vital to regional commerce, logistics, and tourism.

President Nasry Asfura signed an agreement with Spanish firm Dominion to build a new hospital in Puerto Cortés, aimed at expanding medical capacity in Honduras's northern region.

A new 1-kilometer paved road between Jutiapa and Balfate in Atlántida department is now complete, officials say it will serve more than 38,000 people and spur development in the region.

Two brothers, Osman Naín Jiménez Munguía, 26, and Darwin Javier Padilla Jiménez, were shot and killed by armed gunmen in the Lomas de Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Ceiba on Tuesday night; authorities are investigating the incident.

After more than a decade of failed promises, authorities have begun repairing the Danto River containment wall in western La Ceiba, a three-month project of retaining walls, riprap, and gabions to protect about ten flood-prone neighborhoods.

Copeco forecasts moderate rainfall across the Sula Valley from Tuesday through Friday, mainly in afternoon and evening hours, as Caribbean moisture feeds the region; authorities urge residents to avoid swollen waterways and report emergencies.

A magnitude-4.4 earthquake struck off Honduras's north coast early June 2, the second tremor in the Caribbean in less than 24 hours; authorities reported no damage or injuries from either event.

A tropical wave moving west across Honduras from Gracias a Dios will bring 10–20 mm of rain (up to 40 mm in high areas of the Sula Valley) and thunderstorms to the north starting around 3 p.m., with San Pedro Sula authorities warning residents of flood risk in vulnerable neighborhoods.