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Tropical Storm Zeta is drifting away from the Cayman Islands, but flood risk and rough seas will persist.
As of 10am Sunday, the system was located about 188 miles southwest of Grand Cayman and was slowly moving north-northwest towards the Yucatan Peninsula at about 1 mph, the Cayman Islands National Weather Service wrote.
Rain showers will be locally heavy at times, and both a flood warning and a small craft warning remain in effect.
Wave heights may reach up to 7 feet and maximum sustained winds are forecast at 40mph.
Zeta is currently forecast to reach the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula as a tropical storm on Monday and the US Gulf Coast as a hurricane by Wednesday, according to forecasting by the US National Hurricane Center.
Portions of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba are under…
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