Around 11 pm on Monday, Category 4 hurricane Iota made landfall on the coast of Nicaragua just 15 miles from where Eta made landfall just a couple of weeks ago. This storm has winds of 155 mph, with torrential rains and storm surge of over 12 feet. The human costs of this storm are expected to be catastrophic. Dr. Marshall Shepherd of the UGA Atmospheric Sciences program wrote about it in a Forbes.com piece earlier today here.
At the same time, we are watching the same stretch of the Caribbean for te potential development of yet another storm in the next five days. The probability of that happening is 40 percent and slowly rising. Tropical season is not over yet.
