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Honduras registra alta probabilidad de lluvias por influencia de la Tormenta Tropical Amanda
La tormenta tropical Amanda, el primer ciclón tropical con nombre de la temporada de huracanes 2026 en la cuenca del Pacífico, continúa siendo monitoreada por los servicios meteorológicos internacionales debido a su evolución sobre aguas abiertas del océano Pacífico.
Aunque el fenómeno no representa una amenaza directa para Honduras ni para las costas centroamericanas, su circulación favorecerá el ingreso de humedad que podría incrementar las lluvias en distintas regiones del país durante los próximos días.
De acuerdo con los reportes meteorológicos más recientes, Amanda se formó en el océano Pacífico convirtiéndose en el primer sistema tropical nombrado de la temporada 2026.
El Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos informó que el fenómeno se encuentra sobre aguas abiertas y alejado de zonas pobladas, por lo que actualmente no existe riesgo directo para territorios continentales.
Amanda se mantiene lejos de Centroamérica
Los especialistas detallaron que la tormenta tropical registra vientos máximos sostenidos cercanos a los 65 kilómetros por hora, con rachas superiores y una presión mínima central de 1006 milibares.
El sistema se localiza aproximadamente a 2,415 kilómetros al oeste-suroeste de Baja California Sur, México, desplazándose hacia el noroeste sobre aguas abiertas del Pacífico. Debido a esta trayectoria, las proyecciones descartan cualquier impacto directo sobre Honduras, Centroamérica o las costas mexicanas.
Las previsiones indican que Amanda podría fortalecerse ligeramente durante las próximas horas antes de iniciar un proceso gradual de debilitamiento durante el fin de semana.
Los modelos meteorológicos actuales coinciden en que el fenómeno no alcanzaría la categoría de huracán y terminaría disipándose en el océano sin tocar tierra.
Aunque Amanda se encuentra muy lejos del territorio hondureño, los expertos explican que los sistemas tropicales pueden influir indirectamente en las condiciones atmosféricas de la región.
En este caso, la circulación asociada al fenómeno y los remanentes de baja presión favorecerán el transporte de humedad desde el Pacífico hacia Centroamérica, generando condiciones propicias para lluvias y chubascos.
Los pronósticos meteorológicos mantienen probabilidades de precipitaciones entre el 87 % y el 90 %, especialmente en sectores del occidente, sur y algunas zonas del centro del país.
Estas lluvias podrían presentarse de forma intermitente durante varios días, acompañadas en algunos casos por actividad eléctrica y ráfagas de viento moderadas.
Los organismos de vigilancia meteorológica continúan observando la evolución de Amanda para identificar cualquier cambio significativo en su comportamiento.
Sin embargo, hasta el momento no existe ningún indicio de que el sistema pueda representar peligro para Honduras.
Las autoridades han reiterado que la población debe mantenerse informada únicamente a través de canales oficiales y evitar compartir información no confirmada que pueda generar alarma innecesaria.
Asimismo, recordaron que la temporada ciclónica apenas comienza y que durante los próximos meses podrían desarrollarse nuevos fenómenos tanto en el Pacífico como en el Atlántico.
La formación de Amanda marca oficialmente el inicio de la actividad ciclónica nombrada en el Pacífico oriental durante este año.
Los especialistas prevén una temporada activa, por lo que recomiendan a la población mantenerse atenta a los boletines meteorológicos emitidos por los organismos competentes.
Aunque Amanda no representa una amenaza para Honduras, su influencia indirecta servirá como recordatorio de la importancia de la preparación ante fenómenos climáticos que puedan desarrollarse durante los próximos meses.
Por ahora, el principal efecto esperado para el territorio hondureño será el aumento de humedad y la posibilidad de lluvias en varias regiones, condiciones que podrían beneficiar algunas zonas agrícolas, pero que también requieren vigilancia ante posibles crecidas repentinas de ríos o quebradas en sectores vulnerables.
Las autoridades meteorológicas reiteraron que continuarán monitoreando la evolución del sistema y emitirán nuevas actualizaciones en caso de que se produzcan cambios significativos en su trayectoria o intensidad.
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Several Democratic senators repeatedly declined to say whether they still support Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner when pressed about leaked explicit sexual messages tied to the candidate.
Platner’s latest controversy in the public eye involves sexually explicit text exchanges with multiple women that surfaced publicly while he was married to his wife, Amy Gertner.
The Maine candidate also has an active profile on Kik — private messaging app associated with casual sex and anonymous encounters. The app lacks proper identification methods that have led it to enable child predators to share inappropriate material.
His profile, Phustle0331, has been active since 2016, but Platner’s campaign previously acknowledged that the Kik account, which was created in 2016, belonged to him, stating that he had deleted the app from his phone but did not deactivate the account, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has had an active account on Kik since June 2016. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
While most Democrats were hesitant to vocalize their support for Platner, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., made it clear that he supports Platner in securing the Senate spot in Maine because of his opposition to President Donald Trump.
«We have in Maine, a candidate, that is Platner, who wants to stop Trump’s authoritarian destruction of our democracy,» Markey told Fox News Digital. «And we have another candidate, an incumbent, who hasn’t stood up to Trump. And so if you care about our Constitution, there’s really only one choice.»
Many Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have continued to back Platner despite the growing scandal, arguing that flipping Maine’s now Republican-held Senate seat remains a top political priority.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confirmed his support for Maine Democratic candidate Graham Platner on Tuesday amid mounting controversy. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Not all Democrats offered an outright endorsement. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said the decision ultimately belongs to Maine voters.
«I think that’s up to the voters of Maine to decide,» Shaheen said. «I don’t think inappropriate sexual behavior should be approved by anybody who does it, but the voters of Maine will have to decide that.»
Some Democrats declined to weigh in on the controversy or say whether they still support Platner as the countdown to Maine’s primary election enters its final days.
«I haven’t met him, I haven’t engaged with him, and I’m not going to answer that,» Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said.
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Sen. Chris Coons was among several Democratic senators pressed on support for Graham Platner amid the Maine Democrat’s growing scandals. (Nicholas Ballasy/Fox News Digital)
«I don’t do campaign stuff in the Capitol,» Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said when asked both if he was still supporting Platner and if he attended the meeting between some Democratic senators and Platner on Tuesday.
Platner invited the entire Senate Democratic caucus to a meeting Tuesday, though only about half a dozen senators were seen attending. Those in attendance included Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
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The primary election is set for Tuesday, leaving Maine voters just days to decide whether the controversy changes the trajectory of one of Democrats’ most closely watched Senate races.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Pack and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
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The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping security package providing new military aid to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia, delivering a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, who opposed the measure.
Eighteen Republicans crossed party lines to support the Democrat-authored legislation in a vote of 226-195. California Rep. Kevin Kiley, an independent who caucuses with Republicans, also supported the legislation. Meanwhile, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was the lone Democratic lawmaker to vote against the bill.
House GOP leadership and the vast majority of Republicans opposed the legislation aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defenses amid a surge in Russian missile and drone strikes as the conflict enters its fifth year.
The measure now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uphill battle to clear the chamber. The White House said the legislation would undermine President Donald Trump’s goal of ending the prolonged conflict and that he would veto the measure, according to a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.
The GOP-led House passed a Ukraine aid package over the objections of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and the White House. (Al Drago/Bloomberg)
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«The bill seeks to tie the President’s hands by mandating a wide-ranging U.S. response to the Russia-Ukraine war while adding hundreds of millions in unfunded authorizations,» the White House document reads, in part.
The security package would reaffirm U.S. support for Ukraine and NATO, authorize more than $1.5 billion in new security assistance and $8 billion in direct loans, and extend a Pentagon program that procures weapons and military equipment for Ukraine.
The legislation would also target the Kremlin’s energy profits, which are central to keeping Russia’s war effort going, as well as organizations and companies that do business with sanctioned Russian entities.
The White House warned that the legislation’s mandatory sanctions would «plunge the global economy into chaos.»
But Republicans who supported the measure said its passage should not be viewed as defying the president.
«President Trump has been the leader to support the people of Ukraine, and so I’ll be voting for the people of Ukraine, continuing the Trump tradition of support,» Wilson, a South Carolina lawmaker, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
When asked about GOP opposition, Wilson said, «Putin needs to know that the American people stand with the brave and courageous people of Ukraine.»
The White House warned that President Donald Trump would veto the Ukraine Support Act if it reaches his desk. (Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Still, several Republicans who opposed the measure said their opposition should not be viewed as a lack of support for Ukraine.
«This bill is not about helping Ukraine. This is not about standing up to Vladimir Putin,» Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said. «This is about engaging in Trump Derangement Syndrome as President Trump tries to bring this [conflict] in for a landing.»
Others in the GOP conference voiced firm opposition to additional U.S. aid for the country.
«I oppose further funding of Ukraine,» Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., told Fox News Digital.
The successful vote came after the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., had languished in the House Foreign Affairs Committee for more than a year after being introduced in early 2025.
But the measure gained momentum after a handful of defecting Republicans signed a Democrat-authored discharge petition that triggered a vote over the objections of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who controls the floor.
Most Republicans are reluctant to support legislation that comes to the floor via a discharge petition, which is often seen as undermining GOP leadership and aiding Democrats in the minority.
«Democrats have repeatedly governed in the minority as if we were in the majority, and we’re going to do so again this week,» House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Tuesday.
A residential apartment building in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, remains damaged after a Russian attack Wednesday that killed at least three people and wounded four others. (Artem Stepanov/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC «UA:PBC»/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Some GOP lawmakers also argued the Ukraine measure was poorly drafted and outdated.
For example, the bill calls on NATO countries to increase defense spending to 2% of their economic output, but Trump secured a 5% commitment from allies in 2025.
«This bill literally moves us backwards, and a decrease of NATO defense member spending would be the result,» Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., said.
The legislation also proposes a lower figure for training and equipping Ukraine’s military than what Congress authorized last year in annual defense policy legislation.
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«It’s increasingly obvious that this [war] will end, and when it ends, it will be through negotiation,» Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, said during debate on the House floor. «If you support this bill, then clearly you are not interested in peace, because the consequences would tie the hands of this president and could lead to future hostilities that would bleed over into Europe.»
But the legislation’s proponents fired back that Ukraine is in desperate need of military aid amid stalled efforts to end the war.
«This is our Churchill moment or our Chamberlain moment,» Bacon, who is not running for reelection, said. «By God, I want to choose Churchill, and this House better choose Churchill.»
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