Hurricane Iota strengthened rapidly overnight and now has top winds of 125 mph and a central pressure of 925 millibars, making it a powerful category four hurricane. Tropical storm force winds are likely already occurring on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, where the center will make landfall late this evening. Here is the opening paragraph […]
Iota is
now a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Rapid strengthening is expected during the next 24 hours, and Iota is forecast to be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane when it approaches Central America tonight.
Rapid strengthening is expected during the next 24 hours, and Iota is forecast to be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane when it approaches Central America.
While Iota continues to move toward Central America currently as a category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 MPH, we are just a few days away from the potential of a new tropical system developing over the Caribbean Sea.
Iota will become a major hurricane tomorrow before making landfall tomorrow night in northeastern Nicaragua.
Temperatures will fall back into the 50s this afternoon behind a cold front that is passing through Alabama now. It will be breezy with a few showers this morning, and some patchy frost tonight.
Iota will become a major hurricane before making landfall near the border of Honduras and Nicaragua late Monday night into early Tuesday.
