America | Category 5 hurricane Iota ravages Nicaragua

Weather of Arabia - Iota, classified as a Category 5 hurricane, began yesterday evening, Monday, by sweeping the northern coast of Nicaragua overlooking the Caribbean Sea, accompanied by catastrophic winds, torrential rains and devastating storms, according to what meteorologists announced in the Central American country.

Marcio Bacca, director of the meteorology department at the INTERIAT institute, said during a press conference that the eye of the hurricane “is currently touching the edge of the Holover coast,” located about 40 km from the coastal city of Peloe.

Iota is taking the same path as it took just 15 days ago, ETA, the hurricane that was classified at the time as a Category 4 hurricane, leaving more than 200 people dead and wreaking widespread devastation in Central America.

The Miami-based American Hurricane Center had warned that Iota, which is accompanied by high winds with a maximum speed of 260 km / h, was a "fatal threat" to Central America.

US meteorologists have warned that Iota, the thirteenth hurricane to hit Central America this year, threatens regions in Honduras and Nicaragua with "heavy rains", "very strong winds" and "dangerous coastal floods."

In anticipation of this devastating hurricane, the authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people from their homes in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, noting that they have not yet recovered from the devastating repercussions of ETA, which was a less powerful hurricane than Iota when it began to sweep land (a Category 4 hurricane on an ascending staircase of five categories).

In turn, El Salvador declared a state of high alert to face Iota.

Cyclone ETA displaced hundreds of thousands of people and caused severe damage to the infrastructure, and official statistics estimated the number of those affected by it at about 2.5 million .

What increases the severity of Hurricane Iota is that the torrential rains that it will cause will fall on land that is still saturated with water and on residents who have not yet recovered from the damage caused by the floods and landslides caused by the passage of ETA.

Source: AFP

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