Trop­i­cal Storm Sara on Sun­day made land­fall in Be­lize, where fore­cast­ers ex­pect heavy rain to cause life-threat­en­ing flash flood­ing and mud­slides.

The storm moved in­land in Be­lize af­ter drench­ing the north­ern coast of Hon­duras, where it stalled since Fri­day, swelling rivers and trap­ping some peo­ple at home.

The U.S. Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter’s trop­i­cal storm warn­ing as of Sun­day in­clud­ed the Caribbean coast of Guatemala; the coast of Be­lize; and north­ward in­to the coast of Mex­i­co’s state of Quin­tana Roo, from Chetu­mal to Puer­to Cos­ta Maya.

Those ar­eas, along with por­tions of El Sal­vador and west­ern Nicaragua, could see up to 5 inch­es (13 cm), with lo­cal­ized to­tals reach­ing 15 inch­es (38 cm). The con­di­tions “will re­sult in ar­eas of flash flood­ing, per­haps sig­nif­i­cant, along with the po­ten­tial of mud­slides,” ac­cord­ing to the Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter.

“A storm surge could raise wa­ter lev­els by as much as 1 to 3 feet above ground lev­el near and to the north of where the cen­tre of Sara cross­es the coast of Be­lize,” the cen­tre said Sun­day. “Near the coast, the surge will be ac­com­pa­nied by large and de­struc­tive waves.”

Mean­while, north­ern Hon­duras is not in the clear yet. The cen­tre ex­pects Sara to drop up to 3 inch­es (8 cm) of rain there, but some ar­eas could see to­tals hit 40 inch­es (1 me­ter), with “cat­a­stroph­ic and life-threat­en­ing flood­ing” still pos­si­ble.

SAN PE­DRO SU­LA, Hon­duras (AP) —