© 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hurricane Iota hits Nicaragua threatening catastrophic damage This article is more than 1 month old. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina spoke to the gathered crowd … Palm trees blow in the wind as Nicaragua prepares to receive hurricane Iota on November 16, 2020, in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Iota is projected to hit the Colombian island of Providencia by late Sunday and is expected to rapidly strengthen into a major hurricane as it approaches Central America. Updated on: November 17, 2020 / 7:40 PM Hurricane Iota is expected to strengthen in the Caribbean and slam into Central America early next week -- the very region already devastated by Hurricane Eta earlier this month -- forecasters say. Storm hits Caribbean coast less than two weeks after Hurricane Eta carved a … Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. By Tuesday afternoon, Iota had diminished to a tropical storm and was moving inland over northern Nicaragua. Many people whose homes flooded moved to shelters or stayed with relatives. The storm hovered for days over Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, with heavy rains creating flooding and landslides that wiped entire communities off the map. HURRICANE IOTA is now a category five storm in the Atlantic Ocean; the first in 2020. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. People try to recover belongings amid mud after the passage of Hurricane Eta as they prepare to evacuate the Omonita neighborhood in El Progreso, Yoro department, Honduras. SHARE. "There is no food. Iota first impacted the islands of San Andres and Providencia, which have been part of Colombia for centuries, but are geographically closer to Central America than to the Colombian mainland. Hurricane Mitch was considered a rare event, but that is no longer the case with Eta and Iota. On Tuesday, Colombian officials said they were sending a ship with 15 tons of aid to the island. Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf Tuesday, chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane just two weeks ago. Iota is the record 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Iota powers up in new threat to Central America A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and predicted to become a very … The storm was forecast to cross into southern Honduras late Tuesday, and it was expected to dissipate near El Salvador early Wednesday. In her last communication with the mayor of the community of Villeda Morales late Monday, he told her Iota was hitting them hard and the community had not completely evacuated. In the community of Brus Laguna, some 500 people were in a shelter there and another 900 were being moved elsewhere, Mayor Teonela Paisano Wood said. Swells will be felt from Central America to the Yucatan Peninsula, as far east as Jamaica and as far south as Colombia. EMAIL. Maynor Valenzuela/Getty Images Where is Hurricane Iota expected to make landfall? But its slow speed shouldn’t be mistaken with weakness. "We are facing an issue with characteristics never before witnessed by our country.". Iota became the 13th hurricane of the season, two shy of the record 15 set in 2005 but the record-breaking 30th named storm of this season. This week it was inundated again as Hurricane Iota struck. Tropical Depression Iota developed into a category 4 hurricane while continuing its path through the Caribbean Sea towards the northeastern coast of Nicaragua and southeastern Honduras, where it is expected to hit in the afternoon or night on Monday. The local airport is also unusable because of debris, Duque said. Iota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five – the last was in 1932. It’s the second major hurricane to hit the region in two weeks. In mountainous Tegucigalpa, residents of low-lying, flood-prone areas were being evacuated in anticipation of Iota's rains, as were residents of hillside neighborhoods vulnerable to landslides. Dozens of people in the remote Guatemalan village of San Cristobal remain missing after a landslide swept through last week, leaving mud 50 feet deep in some places. Hurricane and tropical storm warnings are also in effect for surrounding area. In Honduras, officials said at least 50,000 people had been removed from high-risk areas. Providencia is inhabited almost exclusively by the descendants of African slaves and British colonizers, who speak an English version of Creole as their native language. Iota considered the strongest hurricane in history to hit Nicaragua, government says By Madeline Holcombe , Amir Vera , Eliott C. McLaughlin , CNN Updated 0320 GMT (1120 HKT) November 18, … The Associated Press contributed to this report. The major storm is forecast to hit Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala – areas still recovering from Category 4 Hurricane Eta. Australia to kill pigeon that crossed Pacific Ocean from Oregon, Past COVID infection provides at least 5 months of immunity, study shows, Tower of London raven goes missing, feared dead, California Privacy/Information We Collect. "We will never forget this year," Bermúdez said. Along Honduras' remote eastern coast Tuesday, people continued evacuating from damaged and flooding homes. “I had gone seven months without work and three days after I got called back this flooding happened,” the 50-year-old said. Panama reported that one person was killed and another missing in its western indigenous autonomous Ngabe Bugle area near the border with Costa Rica. The torrential rains caused by Hurricane Iota in the Caribbean have caused disasters in several Colombian regions where thousands of people have been affected and on Sunday authorities were on alert in the Archipelago of San Andrés, which is … According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, on Monday night that the hurricane makes landfall in northern Nicaragua. CNN's Madeline Holcombe, Gene Norman and Robert Shackelford contributed to this report. Hurricane Iota is now a hurricane, moving slowly west toward the same location Hurricane Eta hit November 3rd. Iota caused severe damage to areas of Central America already devastated by Hurricane Eta just less than two weeks prior. Iota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932. image copyright Reuters displaced thousands and left scores of people dead or missing. It could even go up to category 4. The extent of the damage was unclear because much of the affected region was without electricity and phone and internet service and strong winds hampered radio transmissions. Update, 11:10 p.m. Monday — At 10:40 p.m., Hurricane Iota made landfall as a strong Category 4 about 30 miles south of Puerto Cabezas in northeastern Nicaragua packing … Some of the infrastructure partially damaged by Eta ended up succumbing to the force of Iota. Iota became a Category 2 hurricane late Sunday afternoon, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned it would likely be an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm when it approached the Central America mainland late Monday. Updated 0440 GMT (1240 HKT) November 17, 2020. Iota will be the second major hurricane to hit the area in as many weeks. It also sets the record for the latest Category 5 hurricane on record, beating the record set by the Nov. 8, 1 932, Cuba Hurricane. SHARE. 2 minutes read. Hurricane Iota comes just two weeks after another devastating storm, Eta, hit the Caribbean and travelled further into Central America. More than 40,000 people were in shelters. Before it weakened, Iota was the first Category 5 storm of this record-breaking hurricane season and is threatening many areas of Central America that are still recovering from the devastating effects of. Witnesses said the second hurricane was even stronger than its anterior. Where did Hurricane Iota develop? As the storm moved westward, flooding became a top concern. The Miskito region straddling Honduras and Nicaragua raced to get people to safety before a forecast direct hit from Iota. "We're in danger if it keeps raining," Paisano Wood said. Palm trees blow in the wind as Nicaragua prepares to receive hurricane Iota on November 16, 2020, in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. That was just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall November 3, also as a Category 4 storm. A tropical storm warning is in effect for Providencia, while San Andres is under a hurricane watch, the hurricane center said. Hurricane Iota winds measured at 155 mph making it the ‘strongest hurricane of 2020 Atlantic season’ and 1 mph below Category 5. On November 3, Hurricane Eta made landfall as a Category 4 storm, causing landslides and … A man uses a plastic bag for protection from the rain as he surveils an area of Barrio San Juan where evacuated families live in shelters ahead of Tropical Storm Iota on November 17, 2020, in La Lima, Honduras. Iota became the 30th named storm in a record-breaking hurricane season after forming in the central Caribbean Sea Friday. Hurricane Iota gained 112 kilometres per hour (70 mph) in strength in 24 hours, going from 140 km/h (85 mph) on Sunday morning to a monstrous … The hurricane center said Iota was centered about 20 miles off Isla de Providencia, Colombia, and 145 miles southeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua-Honduras border, and moving westward at 10 mph. Preliminary reports from the coast included toppled trees and electric poles and roofs stripped from homes and businesses, said Guillermo González, director of Nicaragua's emergency management agency. Record-breaking Iota became the Category 5 hurricane to develop in the Atlantic basin the latest in the year — November 16 — in any hurricane season on record since 1851. A fallen tree lies on the road after the passage of Hurricane Iota in Siuna, Nicaragua, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing wetter, stronger and more destructive storms. … It was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. (CNN)Hurricane Iota has made landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 4 major hurricane after pummeling the Colombian islands of San Andres and Providencia. Iota is now the strongest hurricane to hit Nicaragua in November on record. While the full extent of the damage from Eta won't be known for a while, the powerful storm, combined with the coronavirus pandemic, may have effects that last for years. Freshman congressman who said 'it's time to fight' now condemns riot. Hurricane Iota comes just two weeks after another devastating storm, Eta, hit the Caribbean and travelled further into Central America. A hurricane warning is in effect for the coast of Nicaragua from the Honduras/Nicaragua border to Sandy Bay Sirpi, and the northeastern coast of Honduras from Punta Patuca to the Nicaragua border, according to the hurricane center. Hurricane "Iota" strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane -- peak winds of 260 km/h (160 mph) -- on November 16, 2020, as it was passing over the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, making it the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and the strongest-ever to hit Colombia. “Reconnaissance aircraft finds Iota has strengthened into the thirteenth hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season,” it tweeted. "It's the first time that a category 5 Hurricane has reached our territory since records began," Duque said during a national press conference from the Colombian capital of Bogota. “It is likely that the heavy rainfall from Iota, through Thursday, will lead to life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding in parts of northern Colombia and Central America,” the NHC warned. Iota came ashore just 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall Nov. 3, also as a Category 4 storm. Monday, November 16th, 2020. Mirna Wood, vice president of the Miskito ethnic group in Honduras' far east Gracias a Dios region, was in Tegucigalpa collecting donations for her community ravaged by Eta when Iota hit. Tropical Storm Iota forecast to hit Central America at or near major hurricane strength Another 30 inches of rain is expected for the region just hit by Eta. Some were rescued by Nicaraguan authorities, she said. The Tola River topped its banks, and western Nicaragua, along the Pacific coast, was forecast to receive the most rain. The storm is still forecast to hit Central America as a hurricane. Nicaragua's meteorology director, Marcio Baca, said areas where the soil was already saturated would receive 6 to 7 inches of additional rain. Record-breaking Iota became the Category 5 hurricane to develop in the Atlantic basin the latest in the year — November 16 — in any hurricane season on record since 1851. Iota is the record 30th named storm of this year's historically busy Atlantic hurricane season. Iota will be the second major hurricane to hit the area in as many weeks. There were reports of others missing in the same area. "But my mom and my grandmother have some things, and that's why we're living here, to be closer to the house and keep them from stealing the few little things they have left.". The storm made landfall near the town of Haulover at 10:40 p.m. EST with sustained winds near 155 mph, according to an advisory from the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Iota A man walks among the debris of a wrecked house in the coast neighborhood of San Pedro after Hurricane Iota hit with hard winds on November 17, 2020, in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Hurricane Iota’s development also cements 2020 as the second most active hurricane season on record behind 2005. At 10 p.m., Hurricane Iota was centered about 30 miles south of Puerto Cabezas, and was churning west at 9 mph. Hurricane Iota developed in the south-central Caribbean Sea on November 13 as a tropical depression. The island has no direct flights to the continent, but it has become an increasingly popular tourist destination thanks to its quiet beaches and rich marine life. More than 3.6 million people across Central America have been affected by the storm to varying degrees, the Red Cross said earlier this week. The system came ashore about 30 miles south of the Nicaraguan city of Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi. When it made landfall, Iota had sustained winds of 155 mph – a Category 4 hurricane, but by 4 a.m. Iota became a hurricane early Sunday and rapidly gained power, and was expected to pass over or near Colombia's Providencia island during the night. Nicaraguan Navy sailors help evacuate people from the Karata and Wawa Bar communities ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Iota in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua Sunday. TWEET. November 13, 2020 at 9:12 p.m. UTC Tropical Storm Iota formed in the eastern Caribbean on Friday afternoon, set to become a powerful major hurricane and … Iota hit Central America in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The storm has since weakened, and as of 9 p.m. CST Tuesday, Iota was packing only 40-mph winds about 25 miles south-southwest of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the National Hurricane … A dog eats from the rubble of houses destroyed by the passage of Hurricane Eta, in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, on November 15, 2020. Hurricane Iota forecast to hit storm-ravaged Central America as a major storm By Jason Hanna and Alanne Orjoux, CNN 11/15/2020 Louisville police … Iota developed later in the season than any other Category 5 storm on record, beating a November 8, 1932, Cuba hurricane, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. In the aftermath of Eta, Honduras has tens of thousands of homeless people. "I lost everything, I couldn't take anything," Contreras said. Local villagers carry a woman during an evacuation ahead of landfall of Hurricane Iota on November 16, 2020 in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Learn the facts and frequently asked questions about Hurricane Iota. The storm made landfall near the town of Haulover at 10:40 p.m. EST with sustained winds near 155 mph, according to an advisory from the … "We are facing an incredible emergency," Wood said. Iota demolished much of the infrastructure in the city of more than 40,000 people, said local government official Yamil Zapata. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Iota could bring dangerous wind, storm surge and as much as 30 inches (76 centimeters) of rainfall to … As much as 20 inches of rain are expected in Belize as Category 5 Hurricane Iota moves inland across Central America. Even before Iota hit Nicaragua, it scraped over the tiny Colombian island of Providencia, more than 155 miles off Nicaragua's coast. Later, Nicaragua Vice President and first lady Rosario Murillo said that a brother and sister, ages 11 and 8, had drowned in the community of La Pinuela trying to cross the swollen Solera River. Hurricane Iota tore across Nicaragua on Tuesday, hours after roaring ashore as a Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was recently devastated by an equally powerful hurricane. November 16, 2020 Heading to directly hit the Nicaraguan coast, Hurricane Iota strengthened this Sunday and its level is expected to increase even more. Both tropical storms travelled in nearly the exact same path. Iota is expected to make landfall in nearly the exact same location where Hurricane Eta did about two weeks ago, according to the National Hurricane Center … Iota … It's also the ninth storm to rapidly intensify this season, a dangerous phenomenon that is happening more often. Hurricane Iota made landfall at 10:40 p.m. EST in Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, about 2 mph shy of Category 5 status. Iota made landfall just 15 miles (24km) south of where Eta hit on 3 November. Hurricane Iota slammed ashore at 10:40 p.m. EST Monday just 15 miles from where Hurricane Eta made landfall on Nov. 3. Hurricane Iota made landfall at 10:40 p.m. EST in Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, about 2 mph shy of Category 5 status. Online News Editor November 15, 2020. Hurricane Iota hits Colombia. 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Iota is forecast to become a powerful hurricane before it makes landfall in hard-hit Central America next week. RELATED: Tropical Depression No. The Category 5 hurricane was downgraded to Category 4 right before hitting landfall. Video Transcript [AUDIO OUT] Latest Stories. Iota is projected to hit the Colombian island of Providencia by late Sunday and is expected to rapidly strengthen into a major hurricane … By Agency Report On Nov 16, 2020 11:34 AM. Yahoo News. What wind speed did Hurricane Eta have? On Monday, Wendy Guadalupe Contreras Paz, 34, was living under a tarp with her four children and seven other relatives along a main boulevard in La Lima. The predicted storm surge along the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras will be accompanied by "large and destructive waves," along with swells that cause "life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," according to the advisory. It makes you want to cry. First published on November 17, 2020 / 5:17 AM. Hurricane Iota wreaks havoc in Colombia, moves toward San Andrés. One of the hardest-hit areas was La Lima, a San Pedro Sula suburb, that flooded when the Chamelecon River topped its banks. Colombian President Ivan Duque said one person was killed and 98% of the island's infrastructure was "affected.". / CBS/AP. 31 Forms in the Central Caribbean Sea RAMMB/NOAA Hurricane Iota blows over Central America in a satellite image … On November 3. Iota is stronger, based on central pressure, than 2005′s Hurricane Katrina and is the first storm with a Greek alphabet name to hit Category 5, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said. There is no water.". Hurricane Iota is continuing to strengthen in the central Caribbean, well on its way to likely Category 3 or 4 strength. Iota is stronger, based on central pressure, than 2005′s Hurricane Katrina and is the first storm with a Greek alphabet name to hit Category 5, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said. The storm has weakened … Nicaragua's telecommunications ministry said phone and broadband provider Columbus Networks was offline because of flooding in Bilwi. It became a dangerous Category 3 hurricane early Monday, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned it would probably reach Category 4 strength as it approached the Central America mainland late Monday. "This hurricane is definitely worse" than Eta, Jason Bermúdez, a university student from Bilwi, said as screeching winds preceded Iota's arrival. Total damage from the storm is estimated at US$1.4 billion. Costa Rica and Panama should also see about 4 to 8 inches, with up to 12 inches possible in some areas. Iota comes after Hurricane Eta and Tropical Storm Theta. Hurricane Iota's landfall location is approximately 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on November 3rd. Eta triggered flash floods and mudslides in parts of Central America and Mexico and killed more than 130 people. Iota is now the strongest hurricane to hit Nicaragua in November on record. A slow-moving hurricane means that the impacts are felt over a longer period, usually leading to more destruction. Hurricane Warnings have … Many houses lost roofs, fences and fruit trees. Hurricane Iota made landfall Monday evening along northeastern Nicaragua. "We're running out of superlatives for this Atlantic hurricane season. Iota was the second hurricane to hit the North Caribbean of Nicaragua in the last 15 days. The storm had maximum sustained winds, tightly … While Eta came up and hit the state of Florida twice, Iota is not expected to make its way to the U.S. Iota was still a tropical storm on Saturday, traveling west at 5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, according to the hurricane center’s 10 p.m. advisory. Authorities tried to force most of them to move to shelters ahead of Iota's arrival. Map showing the location and projected path of Hurricane … A day earlier, Iota intensified into a Category 5 storm, but it weakened as it neared the coast and made landfall with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph. Hurricane Iota has made landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 4 storm, with the Central American region bracing for the possibility of catastrophic damage. Such high rainfall amounts will "lead to significant, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding, along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain," the advisory warned. Hurricane Iota made landfall on Nicaragua's coast late Monday, threatening significant damage to the same part of Central America already battered by Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Rainfall accumulations throughout Central America are expected to be high, with Honduras, northern Nicaragua, Guatemala and southern Belize seeing between 8 and 16 inches and isolated accumulations of 20 to 30 inches possible in northeast Nicaragua and northern Honduras, according to the advisory. It also sets the record for the latest Category 5 hurricane on record, beating the record set by the Nov. 8, 1932, Cuba Hurricane. Iota is also the first Category 5 storm of the hurricane season. SHARE. Hurricane Iota was the latest Atlantic hurricane to attain Category 5 intensity and only the second Category 5 Atlantic hurricane to occur within the month of November on record—the other being the 1932 Cuba hurricane. 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