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Hurricane Iota advances through Central America and threatens areas devastated by cyclone Eta

2020-11-18T03:21:48.339Z


The phenomenon, which made landfall in Nicaragua on Monday night causing damage and flooding, has deteriorated but remains a risk for the areas flooded by Eta


The

hurricane Iota

continues to advance

by Nicaragua and could "produce flash floods, river overflows and potentially catastrophic landslides" in the next two days, as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned in its last part.

“Although the Iota winds have weakened, the hurricane can still produce catastrophic effects”, especially due to the accumulation of water and landslides in the areas of Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua that were already hit by Eta, a powerful cyclone that left 261 dead in Central America just over a week ago.

Iota, which had been listed as a "catastrophic" and "extremely dangerous" phenomenon by the NHC, made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Monday night off the northeast coast of Nicaragua, near the city of Haulover, about 45 kilometers south of Puerto Cabezas, with sustained winds of 250 kilometers per hour, which degraded as they advanced through Nicaraguan territory to 120 kilometers per hour.

In that country, the cyclone caused flooding, the collapse of telecommunications networks and damage to homes.

"The preliminary report they gave us refers mainly to the fall of trees, light poles and roofs of houses that were blown up and even mentioned a hotel that practically lost the entire roof," he said on Tuesday morning. Guillermo González, president of the National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters (Sinapred).

As he said, there are no reports of human losses.

For his part, Marcio Baca, director of Meteorology at the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies, assured that soil saturation had been detected in the northern Caribbean and that, as it progressed to the west of the country, the accumulation of rain and possible landslides were concerned. of land, mainly in the departments of Jinotega, Nueva Segovia and the Mining Triangle.

According to Baca, the hurricane is expected to continue to weaken as it advances through Nicaragua until it reaches the border with Honduras on Tuesday night.

In that country, the main concern is the amount of rain it may leave in areas that have already suffered floods and landslides with Hurricane Eta.

On the morning of this Monday, the increase in the flow of some streams and rivers such as the Ulúa was already being reported, in addition to strong winds and constant rains in the border area with Nicaragua.

While in Guatemala, the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) reported intermittent rains this Tuesday in Petén, Izabal, the Transversal Strip of the north, center, east and southeast.

📍Alauca, El Paraíso:



Strong winds, low temperatures and constant #Rains in the border sector of Las Manos customs due to the imminent arrival of the #HuracánIOTA OTAto our country. #RojaAlerten #Honduras pic.twitter.com/jGaq50Om04

- COPECO.HONDURAS (@HondurasCopeco) November 17, 2020

Since the weekend, the preventive evacuation of thousands of people who were in the potential path of the hurricane began in Central America, which coincides with that of Eta, a category 4 cyclone that after degrading left several days of copious rains that caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, the destruction of houses and crops and landslides.

Iota is the thirteenth hurricane this season in the Atlantic, which is being unusually active and the first to reach Category 5 this year.

In its advance through the Caribbean, the cyclone also left devastation in Cartagena de Indias and in the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés y Providencia, near the coast of Central America.

Source: elparis

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