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Nana becomes a hurricane and continues to Central America: Belize and Guatemala prepare

2020-09-03T04:27:40.284Z


Forecasters warn that the phenomenon could make landfall in Belize early Thursday after becoming a category 1 hurricane. The Yucatan Peninsula and southeastern Mexico are under alert for torrential rains.


Nana has become a category 1 hurricane in the passage from this Wednesday to Thursday continues to advance westward, gaining strength over the warm waters of the Caribbean, in a trajectory that will take it to the Central American nation of

Belize, where thousands of people They stock up on food, water and construction materials

,

The Associated Press

news agency reported Wednesday

.

There were long lines at supermarkets and many of the supplies in hardware stores sold out as Belizeans scrambled to wall up windows and protect the doors of their homes

before Nana makes landfall, possibly as a hurricane, on Wednesday night. or in the early hours of Thursday.

[The hurricane season was expected to be intense: it will be even worse]

On Wednesday night Nana was about 100 miles east-southeast of Belize City, with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.

The storm was moving at 15 miles per hour and is expected to strengthen throughout the day.}

Belize issued a hurricane watch for the entire coast.

Nana was located 65 miles northeast of the Honduran island of Roatán, a popular tourist destination.

Heavy rains are expected in Belize, as in northern

Honduras

and throughout

Guatemala

when the storm crosses the isthmus on Thursday.

The

southeast of Mexico

and the peninsula of

Yucatan

have received Tropical storm warnings and there are warnings of possible flash floods.

Nana's trajectory is expected to take her to the Pacific coast in the following days, between the border of Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas.

[How and when to prepare for a hurricane or tropical storm]  

Local leaders in rural villages in the Toledo district, in the extreme south, awaited the order of the National Organization for Emergency Management to open shelters with the added difficulty of maintaining distance between people due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As night

fell

,

dark clouds were visible on the horizon as restless residents awaited the arrival of the storm

, the news agency reported.

With information from The Associated Press and Prensa Libre

Source: telemundo

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