The 2020 hurricane season has already reported 13 hurricanes. 2020 has had the highest hurricane activity in the Atlantic since official records began. Meanwhile, torrential rains unleashed by Hurricane Iota have already caused landslides in several Colombian regions where authorities have declared an alert warning for the San Andres archipelago.Ĭentral America was affected by the passage of Tropical Storm Eta last week, which left at least one hundred dead people as a result of heavy flooding and landslides. On November 9, downgraded hurricane Eta made landfall as a tropical storm in the south of the U.S State of Florida. Hurricane Iota damages 98 percent of the Colombian island’s infrastructure and one person has died. Iota’s strength is practically unheard of this late in the hurricane season. NovemIota made landfall less than two weeks after Hurricane Eta, which was also a very strong category four hurricane, made landfall just 25 kilometres apart. Iota has already earned an ominous place in history as the thirtieth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane to form in the already record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Nicaragua's National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Response (SINAPRED) reported that at least 1,500 people have been evacuated from risk areas, especially from the municipalities of Wasmpan and the Misquito Cays, off the Nicaraguan coast.Īuthorities in Panama declared the highest level of alert in the provinces of Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro, and the country's largest Indigenous region, while the rest of the country was placed under a preventive alert level. The United Nations warned on Tuesday of catastrophic consequences from Hurricane Iota, the second major tropical cyclone to hit Central America this month. More on this exceptionally dangerous situation: /gNGzvJlPUe - National Hurricane Center 16, 2020 Novem/ 7:46 AM / CBS/AP Hurricane Iota made landfall on the coast of northeastern Nicaragua late Monday night and is expected to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of. Where ‘double trouble’ has struck before. Hurricane Iota: Images capture the Category 5 storm’s ferocity. It could reach category 5 status later today before making landfall with 12-18 feet of storm surge. It’s yet another staggering record to fall in the 2020 hurricane season. #Hurricane #Iota has rapidly strengthened overnight and now has 155 mph (245 km/h) sustained winds. NovemHurricane Iota made a catastrophic landfall on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua last week, just 13 days after Hurricane Eta’s landfall.
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