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The rains will continue in Cartagena and in the rest of the Colombian Caribbean region.
The General Maritime Directorate, through the Caribbean Center for Oceanographic and Hydrographic Research (CIOH), confirmed that tropical depression 31 evolved and became tropical storm Iota on Friday afternoon.
The phenomenon generates sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour and moves slowly towards the west-southwest, at a speed of 6 km / h.
According to the CIOH, Iota continues to interact with the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which is why moderate to heavy rains are being generated in the departments of Bolívar, La Guajira, Magdalena, Atlántico and Sucre. The height of the swell is oscillating between 2.0 and 2.5 meters.
Iota is expected to have a particular impact on the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, as well as on the Cayos del Norte islands, especially on the Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño Islands, with intense rainfall, strong winds and affecting the field of waves and surface currents due to the effect of the storm surge, especially from Saturday night.
In view of the situation, the CIOH recommended to take extreme security measures in the development of maritime activities, especially for vessels that are in the aforementioned areas.
Heading for hurricane
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States indicated that on the planned trajectory, Iota will move through the center of the Caribbean Sea during the next two days until it approaches the coasts of Nicaragua and northeast Honduras between the afternoon of Sunday.
The storm could become a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale (category 3 and above are considered as such) as it approaches Central America.
So far there have been 30 named tropical storms, of which 12 have been hurricanes and, of these, five have been major.
There is until November 30 for the Atlantic hurricane season to officially end.
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