Hurricane Iota is now an 'exceptionally dangerous' Category 5 storm. This has strengthened tremendously over the last 12 hours and is currently the strongest storm of the 2020 season. It formed off of Africa’s west coast on September 6 in about three days it had intensified to become a Category 1 hurricane. It hit just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta came ashore, killing more than 100 people and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. Iota, a Category 4 hurricane which later strengthened to Category 5, struck Central America on Tuesday, affecting 40,000 people and destroying houses, roads and plants. Hurricane Iota, the 30th named storm this season, is expected to barrel into the Nicaraguan coast as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. The storm … The storm strengthened into a Category-5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale on the morning of November 16 with sustained wind Hurricane Iota is now a category 5 storm with winds of 160 mph. Strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year devastates Honduras. Additionally, hurricanes Charley, Jeanne, Dennis, Wilma, Irma, and Michael made landfall on the state as major hurricanes. Strongest storm of hurricane season strikes Central America Iota, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in a record-setting season, made landfall along the coast of northeastern Nicaragua with winds of 155 miles per hour, strong enough to flatten homes, uproot trees and leave some areas uninhabitable for months. Iota became a Category 5 strength hurricane as it … Hurricane Iota made landfall in northern Nicaragua Monday night as a Category 4 storm, bringing life-threatening storm surge to the coast. About six days after formation it struck Guadeloupe where it … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones Credit: WFAA Strongest hurricanes by wind speed to … Hurricane Iota made landfall at 10:40 p.m. EST in Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, about 2 mph shy of Category 5 status. Share . Hurricane Iota winds measured at 155 mph making it the ‘strongest hurricane of 2020 Atlantic season’ and 1 mph below Category 5. (NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Iota made landfall in northern Nicaragua Monday night as a Category 4 storm, bringing life-threatening storm surge to the coast. Hurricane Laura made landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border on Thursday morning with wind speeds around 150 mph. And Hurricane Harvey was just a category 4 storm. Hurricane Iota is now an “exceptionally dangerous” Category 5 storm, with wind speeds of 160 mph. And that brings us up to today’s events with Category 5 Hurricane Iota. Hurricane Katrina moved slowly, pushed storm surges onto the land, and dropped heavy rain on New Orleans - a city that was already below sea level. A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is now the strongest hurricane yet in this record-smashing season. If Hurricane Irma were to make landfall as a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour, it would rip buildings and everything else in its path to shreds. Hurricane Michael is a category 4 storm, ... and is expected to be the strongest hurricane to hit the continental U.S. since Hurricane Charley in 2004. The dangerous hurricane was expected to spread catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and landslides across portions of Central America. Iota’s winds are 160 miles (257 kilometers) per hour, making it a Category 5 storm -- the strongest on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane Okeechobee was the only major hurricane in 1928’s hurricane season. Hurricane Iota has rapidly strengthened into a category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Iota, the strongest hurricane of 2020 to appear in the Atlantic Ocean, is the latest calendar-year Atlantic hurricane on record, surpassing the Cuba Hurricane on Nov. 8, 1932. Iota, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a record-setting season, made landfall along Nicaragua’s northeastern coast as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 miles (249 kilometer) per hour. Category 4 Hurricane "Laura" made landfall near Cameron in southwestern Louisiana at 06:00 UTC (01:00 CDT) on August 27, 2020, with maximum sustained winds of 241 km/h (150 mph) and minimum central pressure of 938 hPa. (Note that the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale does not account for storm surge, only peak sustained wind.) The record-setting 2020 hurricane season waited until November to produce its strongest storm of the year, when on Monday morning, Iota intensified to a Category 5 hurricane. Iota’s winds reached 160 miles (257 kilometers) per hour Monday morning, making it a Category 5 storm — the strongest on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, the National Hurricane … Hurricane Laura has killed five people, including a 14-year-old girl, after trees fell on their homes when the Category 4 storm system smashed into Texas and Louisiana with 150mph winds. Hurricane Iota made landfall in northern Nicaragua Monday night as a Category 4 storm, bringing life-threatening storm surge to the coast. A hurricane known as the "Last Island" hurricane hit made landfall in Louisiana in 1856 with winds of 150 mph. Iota is now a category five hurricane and the strongest hurricane … The hurricane joins a small group of intense US storms: Only 13 other hurricanes in history have ever made landfall at or above 145 mph, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University. Iota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932. Let us hope for the best, but let us also get prepared for the worst. It's the 30th — and strongest — named storm this year. The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the period was Michael, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 5 hurricane–the strongest since Andrew in 1992. In terms of winds, Laura tied with the Last Island Hurricane of 1856 as the strongest land-falling hurricane in Louisiana history, and tied as the fifth-strongest hurricane on record to make a continental U.S. landfall. Iota has intensified over the western Caribbean on approach to Nicaragua and Honduras. Hurricane Iota has made landfall in Nicaragua as a powerful, potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm. From its vantage point roughly 22,300 miles above the Earth, the GOES-East satellite captured this GeoColor and GLM lightning composite image loop of powerful Hurricane Iota making its way toward Central America on Nov. 16, 2020. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Iota is now a category 5 hurricane, becoming the first storm of the 2020 season to do so. Next week we shall find out what happens. The dangerous hurricane was expected to spread catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and landslides across portions of Central America. The storm is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Monday evening. Iota considered the strongest hurricane in history to hit Nicaragua, government says By Madeline Holcombe , Amir Vera , Eliott C. McLaughlin , CNN Updated 10:20 PM … Copied. 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