The death toll from tropical storm Julia increased to at least 25 yesterday, according to officials, with the majority of fatalities occurring in El Salvador and Guatemala as the fading storm pounded torrential rain on a large portion of Central America and southern Mexico.

The Salvadoran government reported ten fatalities, including five troops, and the evacuation of more than 1,000 residents.

According to officials, eight people were murdered in Guatemala between Sunday and yesterday, seven were injured, and hundreds more were affected by the storm.

Yesterday, authorities in El Salvador and Guatemala similarly canceled classes.

Five deaths have been confirmed in Honduras, including a woman who drowned Sunday after being swept away by floodwaters and a four-year-old boy whose boat crashed Saturday night near the Nicaraguan border, according to officials.

Monday evening, Panamanian emergency services verified two deaths as a result of torrential rains, with over 300 people evacuated from villages near the border with Costa Rica.

Julia made landfall on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Sunday before crossing into the Pacific Ocean.

According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Julia dissipated yesterday afternoon and its remnants were traveling northwest at 15 mph (24 km/h) across Guatemala near the border with Mexico (NHC).

The National Hurricane Center in Miami put Julia's maximum sustained winds at 30 mph (45 km/h).

On the beaches of El Salvador and Guatemala, the National Hurricane Center issued a warning for life-threatening surf and rip currents, while heavy rain could potentially create flash flooding.

It is expected to rain an additional one to four inches in El Salvador and southern Guatemala, and three to six inches on the Tehuantepec isthmus in Mexico.

The storm system is forecast to weaken further on Monday, according to the NHC.

Authorities in Honduras said that 9,200 individuals sought refuge in shelters.

In Nicaragua, Julia left a million people without electricity, and torrential rains and flooding caused more than 13,000 families to evacuate.