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Hurricane Eta has strengthened into one of the Atlantic’s most powerful storms of the year, packing winds of 233 kilometres an hour as it roars towards Central America.
The storm, a Category 4 major hurricane, is expected to dump rain by the foot on Central America after it slams into the coast of Nicaragua on Tuesday, delivering life-threatening storm surges, flash floods and landslides, the National Hurricane Center said.
Eta, forecast to dump as much as 25 inches of rain on Nicaragua and Honduras, is the Atlantic’s 28th storm of 2020, tying a 2005 record for the most named systems in a single year. So many have formed that the hurricane centre has used up all its official names and has
resorted to designating storms with Greek letters.