- Eta landed in central Cuba early Sunday.
- The system is expected to arrive in Florida tonight with rain, wind, hurricanes and more surf.
- Heavy rain will continue locally in Florida until Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Eta is passing through Cuba, and it will come close to flooding tonight in South Florida, hurricane intensity, strong winds and hurricanes producing high surf.
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Ita A landfall fell in Cuba early Sunday morning As a tropical storm, indicated by the radar of the Cuban Meteorological Institute.
Current wind clocks and alerts
A hurricane warning has been issued for Central Cuba, the northwestern Bahamas and South Florida from the Bravard-Walusia county line to Englewood. These include Nassau, the Grand Bahamas, the entire Miami metro area, and the Florida Keys. This is where tropical storm conditions are generally expected to remain until Monday.
Hurricane clocks are in effect for the Florida Keys and the Florida Keys from Deerfield Beach to Bonita Beach. Hurricane conditions are possible in the area on Sunday night and Monday.
Storm surge sightings along the South Florida coast, from Golden Beach to Bonita Beach, including Bay in Biscayne, and the Florida Keys. Dangerous storms are possible in this area.
In parts of western Cuba, including Havana, from Anglewood on the west coast of Florida to Anna Maria Island, the tropical storm clock is in effect. Tropical storm conditions are possible in these areas.
Clocks, warning
(A clock is given when tropical storm or hurricane conditions become possible within 48 hours. A warning is given when those conditions are expected within 36 hours.)
Happening now
Rainfall Storms The Florida Keys and South Florida continue to receive heavy rainfall with gusty winds and at times.
There were numerous reports of winds blowing 40 to 50 miles per hour in South Florida early Saturday and early Sunday. A band of fountains produced 53 miles of wind gusts east-northeast of Dania Beach in Broward County on Saturday.
Forecast details
Here is the latest forecast path for the center of Etana for the next five days from the National Hurricane Center.
Current information
(The red shaded area indicates the possible route to the center of the tropical cyclone. It is important to note that the effects associated with any tropical cyclone (especially heavy rainfall, high surf, sea flooding, wind) usually extend beyond its projected path.))
It is expected to move northward towards South Florida as early Monday to Sunday night as a strong tropical storm.
After that, Eta will turn west and wander in the eastern gulf of Mexico for several days.
Intensity forecast
Near Florida, Eta’s strength will depend on how much soil reacts to the storm. Some icicle wind scissors will distort the hurricane and fight on the battlefield to make it stronger.
That said, Eta could be close to the strength of the hurricane at that time.
Eta’s interaction with dry air and / or wind scissors in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to keep an eye on its intensity when it is in the Gulf of Mexico.
Track forecast
Some weather facilities will play pinball with Eta in the next few days.
First, Eta will be drawn northeast from Cuba, then northward to North Florida by a counterclockwise flow around a high-level low pressure system located in the Gulf of Mexico.
Eventually, as these lows are the bottom of the Eta Stacks, it will begin to flow westward.
The pressure dome helps for a time to the west of the nasal passages in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Eta can then lose its pressure from the high-pressure strip, meaning it can slow down significantly along Florida’s west coast or even hang west.
Eventually, the final landfall could fall anywhere along the Gulf Coast of Florida or the Northern Gulf Coast over the weekend, as it eventually moves on to the next system.
However, there are some predictable model solutions that will never bring Eta back to the ground, as the above dry air and / or scissors after a week are drowned out by the wind.
So, for now, residents near the Gulf Coast should monitor the latest forecast for Eta and check back for updates.
Predictive effects
Rain
According to the Leader Hurricane Center (NHC), it expects below-average rainfall production by Thursday.
– Parts of the Central and South Florida Peninsula, including the Florida Keys: 6 to 12 inches, loneliness averages 18 inches
-Bahamas: Extra 4 to 8 inches, solitary average 15 inches
-Cuban parts: extra 5 to 10 inches, with an average of 25 inches
-Jaimika: Extra 2 to 4 inches, solitary storm averages 15 inches
This can lead to significant flash flooding in all these areas with the possibility of landslides in the terrain area.
Flood watches are in effect until Tuesday evening in South Florida, including Miami-Ft. Luddardel metro areaThere was heavy rain last month.
Eta has already wreaked havoc on the mountainous region of Central America, especially as it passes through Honduras, causing severe flooding and landslides. For more details about the flood, check out our latest news article below.
(More: And ruin Central America)
Rainfall forecast
(Where there are many hours of rain, there can be heavy rainfall.)
In the storm
In general, moderate hurricanes are expected to flood off the coast of Florida. If there is a high tide in the NHC, here are the latest top storm values.
It should be noted that coastal flooding can occur through multiple high tide cycles, particularly across the Gulf and in the Florida Keys, at least until Tuesday, if not longer.
High surf, rip current
Eastern U.S. In the next few days between the high pressure near the low pressure and the low pressure of the Etna, the east coast of Florida will produce gusty winds.
It will reach as far north as the south coast of North Carolina, from Florida’s east coast, by Monday to Sunday, but over the weekend it will allow high surf and dangerous torn currents to extend into some areas. Some such areas are prone to coastal flooding, especially at high tides.
Eventually, based on Eta’s forecast, the surf could start building along the Northern Gulf Coast this weekend.
The wind
Here’s when tropical storm conditions are expected or possible, according to the NHC:
-Cuba: Sunday
-NorthWest Bahamas: By Sunday night
Florida with the Florida Keys: Monday to Sunday late
Tropical storm force wind probabilities
(Areas with at least a 20 percent chance of a tropical storm force wind, indicated by the National Hurricane Center, are indicated above. The most probable time of the wind’s arrival is indicated by black lines, roughly labeled in EST.)
Damage is possible in small parts of the Florida coast where winds blow from 60 miles. For most Floridians in the southern part of the state, wind conditions are expected from Sunday and Monday.
Here is a general timeline of when the most common gusts may occur:
Also, as is often the case with tropical storms affecting the ground, a few tornadoes are possible in South Florida on Sunday night.
Check back to weather.com for forecast updates in the next few days.
Central America Rain Rain Flood Destruction
Nicaragua and Honduras have seen roofs torn from houses, trees uprooted, bridges washed away, landslides and flooded roads.
As a result, torrential rains from Eta caused heavy flooding in parts of Central America.
One of the most difficult parts was western Honduras.
The Ramon Wilda Morales International Airport near San Pedro Sula in Honduras was flooded.
In parts of San Pedro Sula, water was up to the roof on Thursday. The video showed hundreds of people on rooftops and another story of buildings in rescue. Some were trapped for 48 hours.
The water level is said to be on the banks of the Ulia River in western Honduras 13 feet higher than the peak during Hurricane Mitch in 1998. The city was also expected to experience catastrophic flooding along the Choltka River Markovia, In southern Honduras, south of the capital Tegucigalpa.
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A landslide in Guatemala At least 100 people reportedly lost their lives.
More than 22 inches of rain fell on the Caribbean coast since Monday.
Some places received more than 10 inches of rain in a single day, including Puerto Barrios, Guatemala (13.98 inches).
The NHC predicted that storm surges in parts of Honduras and Nicaragua could reach an average of 40 inches.
Eta Storm History
Eta is the 28th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, linking the 2005 season to the highest hurricane on record. It is also the 12th hurricane of the season, the second-highest one-year record in the Atlantic.
In the 18 hours ending at 7pm on Monday, the maximum sustained wind in Eta increased from 70 mph to 150 mph. That is more than double the measure of the intensity of a tropical cyclone, an increase in wind speed of 35 miles or more in 24 hours or less.
At the top of it, late Monday and early Tuesday, was Eta The third strongest November hurricane Recorded in the Atlantic by wind speed and only Fifth Atlantic Category 4 or more hurricanes in a month. The last November Category 4 hurricane was in Paloma Atlantic in 2008.
Eta was the ninth hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which was of intense intensity.
According to Sam Lilo, a researcher at BOTALDER-based NOAA, the central pressure in the Atlantic basin, which recorded the highest pressure of 48 hours on record, sank mill millibars at 48:10 hours. Lilo found that only Andrew, Rita, and Wilma experienced a greater or lesser pressure drop in the 48-hour period than Eta.
Small hurricanes occurred There was a flash of lightning in his ivory on Monday afternoon, An indication of its severity.
Around 4pm on Tuesday, Etna’s gaze came to the coast of Nicaragua, 15-miles southwest of Puerto Caz Bases, Nicaragua. At the time, the Sapphire-Simpson hurricane was a Category 4 hurricane on the Wind Scale, with a maximum sustained wind estimate of 140 miles per hour. N.H.C..
That was it Category 4 hurricane 5th or more on Nicaragua’s landfall record, First after Class 5 Hurricane Felix in 2007.
Was injured by the wind 136 miles per hour Tuesday afternoon near Nicaragua, Puerto Cabezas.
The NHC had predicted an additional 14 to 21 feet of catastrophic storm above normal tidal levels near the landfill of Etna. The intensity of the storm experienced during this is approximate Class 5 Hurricane Felix in 2007.
On Friday, November 6, 2020, people walk around a road blocked by a landslide in Purulah, North Guatemala. As the remains of Hurricane Ata returned to Caribbean waters, Central American governments sought to displace the displaced and the dead, and to recover the bodies from landslides and floods that killed dozens of people from Guatemala to Panama. (AP Photo / Moises Castillo)
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