This allowed for deep convection to become more consolidated going into October 31. On October 30, the disturbance moved west-northwestward and gradually became better organized. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring the disturbance for potential development into a tropical cyclone on October 29, as it moved across the Lesser Antilles and into the eastern Caribbean Sea. The system slowly moved westward across the tropical Atlantic, accompanied by a large area of disorganized cloudiness, showers, and thunderstorms. However, just two weeks later, relief efforts were greatly hampered by Hurricane Iota, which further worsened the disaster in the region.Įxtratropical cyclone, remnant low, tropical disturbance, or monsoon depressionĮta developed from a tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa around October 22. Donations worth millions of USD have been given to affected countries to help recoveries. People left homeless were moved to various shelters after the storm had passed. About 98 tons of food and water were given to Nicaragua and Honduras from Panama. Many Emergency Response Units were to be dispatched globally to help support affected people. Approximately 2.5 million were affected by the storm, including 1.7 million in Honduras. Central America was already facing a humanitarian crisis which was further impacted by Hurricane Eta. Relief efforts for those affected by the storm were extensive and widespread, involving several countries. Moisture from the storm also combined with a cold front further to the north bringing heavy rainfall and flash flooding to the Carolinas and Virginia. Eta's second approach and landfall brought storm surge and gusty winds to the west coast of Central Florida and supplemental rainfall to northern Florida. Heavy rainfall and tropical-storm force winds were recorded across all of the Florida Keys, South Florida and the southern half of Central Florida, bringing widespread flooding. Eta brought heavy rainfall and gusty winds to the Cayman Islands and Cuba, the latter of which was already dealing with overflowing rivers that prompted evacuations. More watches were issued in parts of Cuba, the northwestern Bahamas, and South Florida. Once the system began to reorganize in the Caribbean, tropical storm watches were issued on November 5, in the Cayman Islands. Eta was responsible for at least 175 deaths and over 100 others missing, and an estimated $8.3 billion (2020 USD) in storm related damages-primarily in Central America-were reported as of December 2020. Once inland, Eta produced torrential rainfall and catastrophic wind, flood and storm surge damage across Central America. Hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings were issued along the coast of Honduras and Northeastern Nicaragua as Eta approached. Eta subsequently became extratropical on November 13, before dissipating off the coast of the Eastern United States on the next day. After briefly regaining hurricane strength on November 11, the system weakened back to a tropical storm once more, before making a fourth landfall on Florida on the next day, and proceeding to accelerate northeastward. Over the next five days, the system moved erratically, making a third landfall in the Florida Keys, on November 9, before slowing down and making a counterclockwise loop in the southern Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Cuba, with the storm's intensity fluctuating along the way. The storm later reorganized over the Caribbean as it accelerated toward Cuba on November 7, making a second landfall on the next day. Eta rapidly weakened to a tropical depression and briefly degenerated to a remnant low as it meandered across Central America for two days, before regenerating into a tropical depression and moving north over water. Some weakening took place as the system made landfall near Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, late that same day. With a peak intensity of 150 mph (240 km/h) and 922 millibars (922 hPa 27.2 inHg), it was the third most intense November Atlantic hurricane on record, behind the 1932 Cuba hurricane and Hurricane Iota, the latter of which formed just two weeks later. The system rapidly organized as it progressed west, with the cyclone ultimately becoming a Category 4 hurricane on November 3. The record-tying twenty-eighth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and sixth major hurricane of the extremely-active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Eta originated from a vigorous tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 31. Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic Category 4 hurricane that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. Part of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
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