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Cyclone Giota, at the height of its destructive power, reached the ground just before 7:00 p.m. on Monday (local time; today at 03:00 Greek time) in Central America, off the north coast of Nicaragua in the Caribbean Sea, said the director of the Meteorological Institute of the country. .
The call yota eye, a Category 5 cyclone, the highest on the Sapphire-Simpson scale, is located “on the edge of Halover Beach,” a village 41 kilometers south of Billoway, said Marcio Vaca, director of Managua Me de Nicaragua (INETER ).
Live image of the cyclone
Yota follows the same path as cyclone Ita, category 4, which caused extensive damage and left more than 200 dead two weeks ago.
the new extreme phenomenon It carries winds of up to 260 kilometers per hour and is a “deadly threat” for Central America, warned the National Cyclone Center (NHC) of the United States, which belongs to the National Weather Service of the United States and is based in Miami.
The Cyclon the thirteenth to arrive in Central America this year, threatens their areas Honduras and her Nicaragua with “torrential rains”, “extremely strong winds” and “dangerous rises of the level of the water in the coastal zones”, according to meteorologists of the NHC.
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated as a precaution from their homes in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, who have not yet recovered from the catastrophic Paso de Ita, which when it landed was classified as Category 4 on the five-point Sapphire-Simeon scale.
El Salvador authorities also issued a “red” alert (maximum).
Ita left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and caused enormous damage to infrastructure. They were about to hit 2.5 million people, according to official estimates.
Torrential rains from Cyclone Giota will hit areas already affected by floods and landslides, where the soil has already been saturated or eroded by recent rains.
The authorities in Nicaragua They have ordered many residents to leave their homes, but many refuse to go to already overcrowded shelters for fear of becoming infected with the new coronavirus.
According to Guillermo González, head of the Nicaraguan Agency for Disaster Management (SINAPRED), “some 80,000 families will be at risk” and the populations near the border with Honduras are already being evacuated.
NHC predicts rains of up to 40 cm in Honduras, in northern Nicaragua, in Guatemala and in the south Belize, the precipitation being even stronger in some places and it is estimated that it can even reach 76 cm. It could cause large-scale “flash floods”, “potentially fatal”, as well as “landslides,” it warns.
In HondurasFaced with the floods, police and soldiers were forced to evacuate tens of thousands of residents of the Soula Valley, on the outskirts of San Pedro Soula, the second largest city in the country, for the second day in a row by helicopter and boat.
The country was hit hard by him. κυκλώνα Ήτα and 40,000 people remain in flood shelters.
Authorities lowered the water level in the reservoirs of Honduras’ largest hydroelectric dam as concerns arose that the rains from Cyclone Yota would spill over.
In Guatemala, the disaster management service asked residents to leave their homes in the north and northwest of the country.
The fact that seawater is warming due to climate change makes cyclones much stronger even after they reach above land, scientists say.
Up to this stage 30 tropical storms – record number – registered this year in the Caribbean, Central America and the southeastern United States.
Central American leaders who blamed industrialized countries for climate change on Monday jointly called for help to rebuild international financial institutions.
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