MIAMI – Tropical Storm Eta, in heavy rain, approached the intensity of a hurricane on Sunday as it headed for a heavy collision with Central America, as the Atlantic hurricane formula tied the record for maximum-named storms.
Eta experienced maximum sustained winds of 110 km / h (110 km / h) Sunday night, the US National Hurricane Center said, focused about 345 kilometers east of the Nicaraguan-Honduras border and It headed west at 20 km / h.
Meteorologists expected Eta to become a hurricane overnight and were expected to arrive off the coast of Nicaragua early Tuesday.
Meteorologists said central and northern Nicaragua in much of Honduras could gain between 15 and 25 inches (380 to 640 millimeters of rain, with 35 inches (890 millimeters) in remote areas.
Heavy rains are also likely to occur in southern Guatemala, southern Belize and Jamaica.
Eta is the 28th typhoon in the Atlantic this season, tying the 2005 typhoon record, however, this is the first time the Greek letter Eta has been used as a typhoon, because after the end of the 2005 season, meteorologists came here. Back and we decided there had been a typhoon who deserved to have had a call but didn’t.
The season still has a month to finish, ending on November 30, and in 2005, Zeta took shape towards the end of December.