So, what's next for Tropical Storm Harvey? Well, as of 6:00 pm today the storm was moving west at 21 miles per hour with maximum winds of 40 miles per hour.
Currently, it's about 1,700 miles east of Belize, and forecasters say that it will not arrive close enough to affect the country until around next week Monday or Tuesday.
But, there is a lot that the storm could do before it is close enough to become a serious threat to Belize.
This evening, the deputy meteorologist told us via phone that Belizeans should be closely monitoring this storm to find out what it eventually does. Here's what he had to say:
Derrick Rudon, Deputy Chief Meteorologist
"Nothing has changed really from last night or from this morning. The forecast is still the same. Coming out if the national hurricane center, they still forecast Harvey to strengthen a bit and to move over the Caribbean Sea and by next week Monday/Tuesday should be over the northwest Caribbean which is basically in our area. The center of the cone comes right over Belize, but it is not necessarily have to go right up the center, it could be anywhere in the cone, in the area at that time."
"What we can say is we will be affected by this system next week late Monday or into Tuesday. We don't know if it's going to be a minimum storm or a minimum hurricane, but it will affect us somehow or the other. It could fizzle out and weaken to maybe a depression or just a wave, or it could strengthen. If it hits the northeastern portion of Honduras, Nicaragua there, it will certainly weaken and some of the models are doing that - they are weakening the system, but others are keeping it as a storm and strengthen and show some strengthening over the northwest Caribbean Sea. So we can't say what strength it will be, but we know that system will affect us late Monday into Tuesday."
Channel 7 will keep following the storm over the weekend.
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