Expand / Hurricane Iota on Monday as it approached landfall. (charge: NASA EO)
This season’s unrelenting storm season is rollingup, and Monday evening watched Hurricane Iota make landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 4 storm. Regardless of the official end of the Atlantic hurricane period becoming less than 2 weeks off, Iota really became the most powerful hurricane of this year after it attained Category 5 to Monday morning.
Here is the very first November on record to determine two important (Category 3+) hurricanes, and it is the newest any storm has struck Category 5. The other November group 5 happened at 1932, which was at the very first week of the month. Iota is your 30th termed storm of 2020along with a record. When the record of 21 storm names for this entire year is used up, following storms are just given by Greek letters.
Here is the way 2020 Atlantic #hurricane season rankings so much with different seasons in satellite age (since 1966) and also long-term moderate. Record-setting for named storms, 2nd for hurricanes & leading hurricanes, 3rd for named storm times, 6th to get Accumulated Cyclone Energy. #Iota pic.twitter.com/cjBlIIz5JP
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) November 17, 2020
Iota created landfall near Puerto Cabezas at Nicaragua, attracting 155 mile-per-hour rivers, rain, snow and storm surge. Incredibly, this was only 15 miles south west of this place Hurricane Eta made landfall (also as a Category 4) on November 3. This means lots of men and women who dared to Eta had not even returned but those that had were made to evacuate again{} a pandemic.
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