[ad_1]
The storm made landfall in Lower Matecumbe, located roughly in the middle of the Florida Keys.
Eta strengthened in the last stretch of sea between Cuba and the United States, and the wind force was measured at around 27.8 meters per second on Sunday night local time, when the center of the storm was approaching the southern part of Florida.
see more
Warns
The US Hurricane Warning Center (NHC) has warned that Eta could grow to hurricane strength and warned of dangerous storm surge, flooding and high winds.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in the southern counties of the state on Saturday, pending the storm. On Monday, schools in the Florida Keys will be closed and corona testing centers will be temporarily closed. Authorities opened evacuation centers and distributed sandbags to protect homes from flooding.
Warns against the “atmospheric river”
Many dead
Eta hit Nicaragua on Tuesday with the force of a hurricane and heavy rains, but the wind speed dropped. In Central America, about 200 people are dead or missing, including about 150 in Guatemala. In Honduras 23 people died. In the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, at least 20 people died before the storm moved across the high seas towards Cuba.
Eta made landfall at 4:30 a.m. Sunday with strong winds and rain. The wind speed was 26.4 meters per second. It is below the hurricane limit, which is 33 meters per second.
No lives were lost and no major damage to homes, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Sunday.
Before that, 74,000 people had been evacuated from their homes.
