Josh Classen’s week in wild weather [Video]

Here are some of the big weather stories from around the world this week.

Tropical Storm Sara tore through parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Belize. At least four people are dead, including a child swept away in the floodwaters.

Parts of Honduras received more than 20 inches of rain, that’s over 500 mm. Flooding from the downpour washed out roads and as many as nine bridges. There were also widespread mudslides and significant damage to homes and crops in the region.

Tropical Storm Sara is the 18th named storm of the hurricane season, and the third in November. On average, there are 14 named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season.

A bomb cyclone off the west coast of British Columbia pounded Vancouver Island, coastal B.C. and the Pacific Northwest in the United States. A low pressure system that has a pressure drop of at least 24 millibars in 24 hours …