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Hurricane Iota made landfall in Nicaragua earlier today with a wind speed of up to 250 km / h as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, but just before the eye hit the land of Iota it became Category 4. 5, the highest. of the scale. His satellite images were impressive.
The hurricane made landfall in the Puerto Cabezas region, just 25 kilometers south of the point where Hurricane Eta entered Central America two weeks earlier. The area that had already been razed suffered even more damage with the arrival of Iota.
WORLD | Impressive Category 5 Hurricane Satellite Record #Iota just before making landfall on the last night in Nicaragua. Sentinel-2 satellite image via @CopernicusEU. pic.twitter.com/Z9pETBp6oS
– MetSul.com (@metsul) November 17, 2020
Puerto Cabezas was held incommunicado yesterday, according to the Managua press, but the few reports that existed have caused great damage. As it moved across the continent, the storm began to lose strength, but it brings rains of up to 500 mm to 1,000 mm that will be responsible for large floods in areas already winged by the Eta, in addition to causing landslides.
Iota is the 30th named cyclone in the North Atlantic in 2020, beating the 2005 record of 28. There are already four intense hurricanes (Category 3 or higher) formed in October and November. Before 2020, the maximum was two.
So far, only two Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in Nicaragua, Edith (1971) and Felix (2007). Iota is also the first Category 5 hurricane to be named after the Greek alphabet. Since 1932, a category 5 hurricane has not been registered so late. The only previous one was that of Cuba in 1932.
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