Authorities rushed to evacuate thousands of people from the coastal areas of Nicaragua and Honduras, which are on their way to this hurricane, which has reached its peak in Category 5.
Iota has already claimed the death of one person when it was torn apart in Colombia ‘s Caribbean territory in Providence, causing extensive damage there.
“This strong hurricane Iota is already on the front line, it is already on land, “said Marko Baka, meteorological director of the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies.
U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) weather forecasters warned of “catastrophic winds, life-threatening storms and storms (..) in Central America.” The maximum strength of the storm winds was 260 kilometers per hour (72 meters per second).
The NHC warned that Category 5 hurricanes could destroy many homes and destroy the electricity supply, and that most of the affected area could be “uninhabitable for weeks or months”.
In the same area, a Category 4 hurricane hit the ground in early November Andwhich later reduced to a tropical storm. And caused widespread floods and landslides that killed around 200 people.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has the largest number of named storms – 30. Of these, 13 have become hurricanes.
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