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Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic tropical cyclone that devastated ... – Another late-season Category 1 hurricane that took a similar erratic track through ...
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Eta was located about 140 miles (220 kms) west-southwest of Camaguey, Cuba, Saturday and was moving northeast at 13 mph (20 kph) with winds of 65 mph (100 ...
The decade featured Hurricane Andrew, which at the time was the costliest hurricane on record, and also Hurricane Mitch, which is considered to be the deadliest tropical cyclone to have its name retired, killing over 11,000 people in Central America. A total of 15 names were retired in this decade, seven during the 1995 and 1996 seasons.
Eta was a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph) late Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Cat 4 Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America Skip to ...
Hurricane Iota shortly after landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Iota made landfall in Nicaragua as a mid-end Category 4 hurricane near the town of Haulover, just south of Puerto Cabezas, on 16 November, only 15 miles (24 km) south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall 13 days prior. [70]
Eta strengthened Monday to become a Category 4 hurricane, expected to bring "catastrophic" wind and flooding to parts of Central America, the National Hurricane Center said. The 12th hurricane of ...
Hours after regaining hurricane force on Wednesday morning as it started moving northeastward over the Gulf of Mexico, Eta weakened into a tropical storm just west of Florida early in the afternoon.
Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...