Hurricane Iota bears down on Central America as ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
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(Worthy News) – Hurricane Iota made landfall in Nicaragua on Monday evening after strengthening to an incredibly powerful Category 5 storm. Several other Central American countries also braced for the storm’s impact.
The US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned of “catastrophic” wind and rainfall, reporting that the storm’s maximum sustained winds had reached 160 mph (260 kph). Hurricane Irma made landfall in Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast on Monday evening.
“What’s drawing closer is a bomb,” Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez told a news conference, speaking alongside Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei. [ Source: Deutche Welle (Read More…) ]
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