The hurricane season officially ends in late November. Tropical is still performing in mid-season form with two tropical systems spinning.
Hurricane Iota has continued spinning in the western Caribbean, it is very close to where more than a week ago, Eta was in the Caribbean. It has a maximum wind speed of 85 miles per hour and is moving at a speed of 7 miles per hour in the west-southwest. It will continue in the normal-west, and strengthen as it does.
Iota continues to strengthen rapidly and is forecast to be a major hurricane before a landfall occurs on Tuesday. Samples are consistently relevant in bringing it to Nicaragua and then raising it in Central America.
As it does, it will produce dangerous flooding. Iota is expected to receive 4 to 8 inches of rain in northern Colombia, Panama and parts of Costa Rica, with an average total of 12 inches.
In the rest of Central America, the system is expected to receive 20 to 30 inches of rain, focusing on northern Nicaragua and Honduras. This rainfall will lead to significant, life-threatening flash floods and river floods along with landslides in high terrain areas.
There’s no indication that it makes the same turn as Eta at the moment, but like any system in the Caribbean, Iota observes.
