A deep plume of tropical moisture streaming ahead of Hurricane Helene ran into a boundary parked over the interior southeastern United States. This boundary squeezed the tropical moisture out of the air like a sponge, leading to days of heavy rain across the mountainous terrain of North Carolina and Tennessee.

Impacts to the United States from Sara are not yet clear, but recent forecast evolutions are encouraging for Florida.

After making landfall on the northern coast of Honduras late Thursday night, Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to weaken as it moves over the Yucatan peninsula and later emerge over the Gulf of Mexico,