It is the 13th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which has left its mark as a historic season bringing 30 named storms – the most ever. On November 3, Hurricane Eta made landfall as a Category 4 storm, causing landslides and flooding that displaced thousands and left scores of people dead or missing. Iota will be the second major hurricane to hit the area in as many weeks. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.”Ĭentral America still recovering from Eta “Swells generated by Iota will affect much of the coast of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula during the next day or so. “This rainfall will lead to significant, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding, along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain,” the hurricane center said in its latest alert on Tuesday. The storm has dumped heavy rain, with Honduras and large portions of Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize expecting at least 10 inches and up to 30 inches through Thursday, while areas from El Salvador to Panama can expect 4 to 8, with isolated maximums of 12 inches. Hurricane Iota makes landfall as a Category 4 storm Iota should dissipate near El Salvador by Wednesday night, the Hurricane Center said on Tuesday afternoon. It will continue inland into Nicaragua on Tuesday afternoon before moving into southern Honduras late Tuesday. The islands of San Andres and Providencia, located just northwest of Colombia’s mainland, have for the first time in recorded history felt the impact of a Category 5 hurricane, Duque said on Monday.ģ0 inches of rain forecast in some locales Local mayor Jorge Norberto Gari Hooker had ordered a total curfew from Sunday evening and set up 15 municipal shelters for population to hunker down in. The priority is now to clear the island of debris and set up emergency campsites and field hospitals as quickly as possible. The island’s infrastructure has been completely wiped out, Duque said. “We mourn, though, the loss of two people.” “We are glad that, thanks to our preparations and the measures we took, the community of Providencia has not been affected by a huge death toll,” Duque said. One hundred and twelve people were evacuated from the island Tuesday, among them six seriously injured. Yoseph Amaya/Getty ImagesĪt least two people are dead and one is missing on Providencia, Colombia President Ivan Duque said on Tuesday. People from San Rafael colony in Honduras prepare for the water shortage as they cross the Ulua River to evacuate Monday. More than 100 people evacuated on Colombian island of Providencia Residents of Bilwi, where telecommunications have been impacted, were asked to “maintain calm, stay away from places that are vulnerable or that represent some danger to human security.” Photos from the agency show people wading through knee-high water in Rivas and in Bilwi, on the northern coast. In several cities in the Rivas region of Nicaragua, a strip of land between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean in the nation’s southwest, authorities are monitoring rivers and placing vulnerable families in shelters, NHC said. Its landfall was just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta struck, potentially leaving the region scarred for generations. Swells from the storm will be felt as far north as the Yucatán Peninsula, as far east as Jamaica and as far south as Colombia. (Photo by Maynor Valenzuela/Getty Images) Maynor Valenzuela/Getty Images Iota is the 13th hurricane of the season to hit the Atlantic coast and has already strengthened to category five, threatening the area with catastrophic winds and heavy rains. Less than two weeks after being hardly affected by Hurricane Eta, villagers of Puerto Cabezas take precautions before landfall of Iota. PUERTO CABEZAS, NICARAGUA - NOVEMBER 16: Palm trees blow by wind as Nicaragua prepares to receive hurricane Iota on Novemin Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
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