![]() ![]() National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Centerįorecasts (wind speed probabilities, arrival time of winds, warnings/cone maps, key messages) United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) Repository of products (situational updates, maps, infographics) ReliefWeb - Map products, Hurricanes Eta and Iota ![]() United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) OrganizationĮuropean Commission, Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS)ĮMSR477: Tropical Cyclone in North Caribbean Region, NicaraguaĮMSR481: Tropical Cyclone Eta in HondurasĬentral American Coordination Center for Natural Disaster Prevention (CEPREDENAC) In addition, it is compiling relevant resources on this page to support disaster management officials in the region in preparing for and responding to hurricane Eta. Upon the request of the Central American Coordination Center for Natural Disaster Prevention ( CEPREDENAC), UN-SPIDER is supporting countries in the region with access to relevant space-based information products. According to NOAA, catastrophic wind damage is expected where Eta's eyewall moves onshore within the Hurricane Warning area (coast of Nicaragua from the Honduras/Nicaragua border to Sandy Bay Sirpi) in the morning of 3 November, with tropical storm conditions in the larger area beginning within the next couple of hours. The National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurriance Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States of America is warning that it could became a category 5 hurricane before making landfall. 30.A category 4 hurricane, Eta is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on 3 November. The hurricane season officially ends Nov. 8, 1932, Cuba hurricane, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. It also developed later in the season than any other Category 5 storm on record, topping a Nov. Iota was the 30th named storm of this year's historically busy Atlantic hurricane season. It left tens of thousands homeless in Honduras, which reported 74 deaths and nearly 57,000 people in shelters, mostly in the north.īefore hitting Nicaragua, Iota blew over the tiny Colombian island of Providencia, where Colombian President Ivan Duque said one person was killed and 98 per cent of the island's infrastructure was "affected." (Wendell Escoto/AFP/Getty Images)Įta caused more than 130 deaths as it triggered flash floods and mudslides in parts of Central America and Mexico. People wade through a flooded street due to the overflow of the Chamelecón river in La Lima municipality in the northern Honduran area of Cortés on Wednesday following the passage of Hurricane Iota, now downgraded to a tropical storm. There were seven confirmed dead at the mountain, and the search continued, Murillo said. Police blocked media access to the site on the Macizo de Penas Blancas, a mountain in Matagalpa province, about 130 kilometres north of Managua. But Iota's torrential rains remained a threat. Rescuers searched at the site of a landslide in northern Nicaragua, where the local government confirmed four deaths and neighbours spoke of at least 16.Ī short video from the nation's emergency management agency showed a massive bowl-shaped mountainside shrouded in clouds that collapsed. By early Wednesday, Iota had been weakened by its passage over Central America and dissipated over El Salvador, where winds of 45 km/h were recorded. Iota struck Monday evening as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 250 km/h, very close to the force and location of Hurricane Eta two weeks earlier. The victims were spread across the country, swept away by swollen rivers or buried in landslides. Nicaragua Vice-President and first lady Rosario Murillo on Wednesday raised the nation's death toll to 16. ![]() The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota became clearer Wednesday as images emerged showing piles of wind-tossed lumber that used to be homes and concrete walls that were pounded into pieces by the second Category 4 storm to blast Nicaragua's Caribbean coast in two weeks.
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