Tropical Storm Eta
hit Florida again
at 4 am this Thursday, near the city of Cedar Key.
With maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (85 kilometers per hour), Eta left torrential rains in parts of the west coast of the state as it advanced over the Gulf of Mexico and north of the peninsula.
According to the latest part of the National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English), Eta was moving towards northeast Florida this Thursday at 13 mph (20 km / hour), will reach the Atlantic and will move parallel to the Carolinas (but without touching land).
Experts predict the storm
will weaken
after making landfall but later, between Thursday and Friday, it may regain strength as a cyclone before being absorbed by a larger one.
No injuries, serious damage,
or immediate flooding
were reported
in the Tampa Bay area when the meteor passed over that area Wednesday afternoon.
Several tornado alerts were issued, but there were no reports of them making landfall.
More than 3.5 million people live in the five coastal counties of Tampa Bay.
No mandatory evacuations have been ordered, but authorities have set up shelters for those who need them.
Local media reported that only a handful of people used them.
Hurricane Eta leaves damage and flooding in Tabasco and Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico
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By Wednesday morning, Eta had turned into a hurricane again, but then just hours later it weakened into a tropical storm.
In Cuba, the phenomenon overflowed rivers and flooded coastal areas.
Some
25,000 people were evacuated
and there were no reports of deaths as of Tuesday, although the rain continued.
This was the
28th named storm
in an intense hurricane season in the Atlantic.
And on Monday night, it was followed by storm number 29: Theta, thus surpassing the historical record of storms and hurricanes reached in 2005.
The storm already made landfall in the Florida Keys on Sunday, causing flooding in urban areas and homes in Miami-Dade County.
A new study indicates that hurricanes have not only become more recurrent, but have
maintained their strength longer
once they make landfall, causing further destruction in their wake, The Associated Press news agency reported.
The storm hit Central America as a Category 4 hurricane and
caused dozens of deaths
and disappearances from Mexico to Panama, before moving to the Gulf early Monday.
The worst consequences have been suffered in
Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and in southern Mexico
.
In total,
dozens of deaths
have already been recorded
and more than 100 people are still missing
in the Central American area.
There was also material damage due to landslides and mud that overwhelmed dozens of houses.
In Mexico, the states of
Chiapas and Tabasco decreed a state of emergency due to catastrophic floods
and recorded
nearly 30 deaths
and tens of thousands of victims.
In some municipalities of Tabasco, the accumulated water exceeded nine feet in height and thousands of families lost all their belongings.
With information from AP.