Crown Weather:

Invest 99-L Located Just South Of Jamaica: Invest 99-L continues to be fairly well defined today, however, it seems to still lack a low-level center. The reason why the mid-level center hasn't been able to work down to the surface and spin up a tropical storm seems to have to do with the fast forward speed that this disturbance is moving at. It should be noted that once this system forms a well-defined low-level center, it will automatically be upgraded to a tropical storm as ship observations indicate that tropical storm force winds are occurring on the northern side of this disturbance.

This means that tropical storm conditions with squally weather is likely on the island of Jamaica the rest of today.

On Wednesday, I think that Invest 99-L may slow down enough for it to spin up into a tropical storm as the environmental conditions will still be favorable for development. It should be noted though that a reconnaissance flight will be investigating Invest 99-L today & it's quite possible that they will find that this system is already classifiable as a tropical storm.

It continues to be likely that Invest 99-L will move inland into Belize late Wednesday night or Thursday morning as a 40 to 50 mph tropical storm.

This means that tropical storm conditions continue to be likely on Wednesday night into Thursday across the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

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That collection of cloud and ITCZ swellups continues to come our way and is now passing Jamaica with a fair bit of rain areas, but only a tiny hint of any rotation, the hurricane people still only refer to it as INVEST 99L an area to watch, 40 mph max winds, 1005 mb which is only slightly below the normal 1013 mb This area should be getting to most of Belize sometime around this evening and night. The present indication is that it will bring some much needed rain to many parts of Belize, more so for central and north.