Cuba's meteorology office warned on Saturday of torrential rain and flooding as tropical depression Eta churned northward toward the Caribbean island, and on track to Florida, after killing more than 70 people in Central America last week. Eta could strengthen back into a tropical storm over the warm Caribbean waters before making landfall on the southern coast of central Cuba overnight, the office said, warning of coastal flooding and winds of 80-100 km/h. A resident walking through a flooded street in Planeta, Honduras on Friday ooks back at storm damage caused by Eta. Tropical storm conditions were possible in the Florida Keys and south and central Florida from late Sunday, it said. Across swathes of the mostly poor countries wedged between Mexico and Colombia, high winds, torrential rains and catastrophic flooding caused deadly mudslides and damaged hundreds if not thousands of homes.

Source: CBC News November 07, 2020 12:22 UTC