After becoming the 13th hurricane of the Atlantic tropical season Sunday morning, Iota continues to strengthen and is set to bring serious impacts to parts of Central America this week.
The official end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is just a couple weeks away, but the record-setting Atlantic hurricane season shows no signs of slowing down. Iota is the record-breaking 30th named storm to form in the Atlantic so far this season.
Now a Category 2 hurricane, Iota is on a westward track toward Central America with a landfall happening late Monday or Monday night.
This would strike a similar area that Hurricane Eta hit just a few weeks ago. Eta led to heavy rain, mudslides and widespread flooding in the countries of Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, killing at least 120 people.
Unfortunately, a similar scenario could well play out from this storm as it pushes west over the next few days. Hurricane Iota is forecast to continue to rapidly intensify into a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall.
Hurricane and tropical storm warnings are in place for parts of the Central American countries of Nicaragua and Honduras, along with some of Colombia's outer islands.
Catastrophic wind and storm surge is likely as the storm moves ahore on Monday. Extreme rainfall could lead to life-threatening mudslides and flooding as well.
Records, Records and More Records
Tropical Storm Eta was the 12th named storm to make landfall in the United States this season when it crossed the Florida Keys Sunday night, November 8. Here's a look at the other 11 U.S. landfalls.
You name the record, and there's a decent chance that the 2020 Atlantic tropical season's broken it.
From the earliest named storms on record to a record-breaking 12 landfalls, 2020 is producing a laundry list of records - and we still have a few weeks to go in the official season.
The National Hurricane Center named three storms on the same day, September 18, leading to another record for this hurricane season. This pushed us into the Greek alphabet.
We've now crossed Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta off the list, all the earliest times on record for those names in the Greek alphabet.
It's only the second time we've dipped into the Greek alphabet to name storms. That last time was in 2005 where we made it to Zeta, the sixth name on the list.
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