Tropical Storm Sara has formed in the Caribbean Sea and has begun lashing the sparsely-populated Caribbean coast of Honduras with heavy rain.

Sara is now expected to track further west over more of Central America and the Yucatán and weaken after being starved of the warm water it would need to survive. Sara will likely undergo too much interaction with land in Central America and Mexico to survive into the Gulf of Mexico, the NHC said Thursday afternoon.

A developing storm system over the western Caribbean Sea is expected to soon earn the name Sara, and it is forecast to bring storm conditions to Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula. There remain signs that the storm could enter the Gulf of Mexico,