Yellow Alert

Honduras's capital and surrounding municipalities are under a yellow weather alert for the next 48 hours as emergency agencies coordinate to protect residents from flooding and landslides in high-risk areas.

Honduras's disaster agency extended a green alert to Santa Bárbara department and maintained a yellow alert for low-lying areas along the Goascorán River through October 9, with rains expected to cause flooding, landslides, and fallen trees.

Copeco elevated the Central District and La Alianza, Valle, to yellow alert for 48 hours as a trough system brings heavy rainfall to western, central, southern, and northwestern Honduras, with officials warning of risks in streams and low-lying river areas.

The capital's municipal authorities elevated the Distrito Central (Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela) to yellow alert for 48 hours due to heavy rain and risk of landslides and flooding, after recent storms collapsed at least 13 homes in the Villa Unión neighborhood.

Honduras's emergency agency declared yellow alert for Las Vegas and green alert for other Santa Bárbara municipalities after intense rainfall caused flooding, swollen rivers, and evacuations.

Drought linked to El Niño has pushed Honduras's disaster agency (COPECO) to place 75 municipalities in the dry corridor under indefinite yellow alert, while 49 remain on green alert and 113 are under monitoring for reduced rainfall across six departments.