Opnieuw zware orkaan voor Midden AmerikaOrkaan Iota is een categorie 1 orkaan met een kerndruk van 977 mb en trekt westwaarts in de richting van Nicaragua en Honduras. Volgens diverse modellen zal de orkaan nog verder in kracht toenemen tot mogelijk een categorie 3 of 4.
Iota volgt op orkaan ETA, die in dit gebied al voor veel doden heeft gezorgd (
hier staat het topic over ETA ). De neerslagverwachting loopt op tot +50 cm.
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The storm known as Iota rapidly strengthened into a hurricane early Sunday and is expected to slam into storm-ravaged Central America in the coming days.
Iota is forecast to make landfall as a Category 4 with sustained winds of at least 130 mph late Monday night or early Tuesday. It will be the second major hurricane to hit the region in the past two weeks. On November 3, Hurricane Eta made landfall as a Category 4 storm, causing landslides and flooding that left scores of people dead or missing.
Iota, which formed Friday at sea, was centered in the Caribbean about 335 miles east-southeast of the Nicaragua-Honduras border with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph as of 10 a.m. ET Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center said. It is forecast to continue to rapidly strengthen over the next 24 hours.
Iota -- the 13th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season -- is expected to continue heading west and make landfall somewhere in Central America, potentially near the Honduras-Nicaragua border by late Monday or early Tuesday, CNN meteorologist Tyler Mauldin said.
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WKN / [ACTUEEL] Hurricane Season 2020 #2