Hurricane Iota

[Suffolk Spuds]

 

Iota looks incredibly powerful!! Poor people in Nicaragua having to endure this immensely violent hurricane.

 

[matty40s]

Looks like storm surge is starting.

 

 

[stodge]

By any sense, an extraordinarily powerful storm for this stage of the "season". 917 MB in November is matched only by the 1932 Cuba Hurricane and I fear the damage and loss of life from this will be considerable.

This has developed from almost nothing in six days.

Let's just hope it's not as destructive as Mitch was back in 1998 - the damage then was caused by days of uninterrupted rainfall from a slow-moving storm. 

[Had Worse]

If you look at the 5 day prediction, yet another amber area appears in roughly the same neck of the woods as Eta AND Iota.  

Has it ever crossed anyones mind why the central portion of the Americas is so narrow.?

[matty40s]

26 minutes ago, Had Worse said:

If you look at the 5 day prediction, yet another amber area appears in roughly the same neck of the woods as Eta AND Iota.  

Has it ever crossed anyones mind why the central portion of the Americas is so narrow.?

It's on the general hurricane 2020 thread.

 

 

[Suffolk Spuds]

Headphones on, volume up and max the video to full screen! You can hear the whistling/screaming and roar of hurricane Iota. 

 

[Ryukai]

There's a recon plane currently flying through the hurricane, about to make a second pass through the eye.

Aircraft Reconnaissance - Tropical Tidbits

WWW.TROPICALTIDBITS.COM

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Live updating recon data for the Atlantic basin

Found a stream of a Local News channel if anyone's interested.  They've had a van driving around taking footage.

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by Ryukai

[weatherobsuk]

Iota made landfall as a high-end CAT4 overnight around 03:40am UK time and only 12 miles south from where Eta did some 2 weeks ago. Since then and now it's weakened significantly (still CAT1) before it phases into the Tropical Storm mode but still bringing significant rainfall totals to the area.

[matty40s]

The eye of Iota just before landfall from the Sentinel II satellite....incredible.

 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[matty40s]

Honduras again...