Follow along here for the latest about Sara on Friday, Nov. 15. A weather system growing more powerful over the central Caribbean was designated Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday, becoming the 18th named storm of what has been a brutal hurricane season for Florida and the Southeast.

Parts of Central America are getting slammed with catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides that could lead to loss of lives and property as a slow-moving Tropical Storm Sara bears down on Honduras and Belize,

A tropical wave producing a cluster of showers and thunderstorms across the Caribbean has a 90% chance of becoming a tropical depression by the weekend.