Iota became a Category 2 hurricane late Sunday afternoon, and the US National Hurricane Center warned it would likely be an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm when it approached the Central America mainland late Monday. Also Read: ‘On steroids’: Hurricanes are becoming turbocharged and harder to predictIt was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane center said Iota had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 kph) early Sunday evening. Eta was the 28th named storm of this year’s hurricane season, tying the 2005 record for named storms. The official end of hurricane season is Nov. 30.

Source: Hindustan Times November 16, 2020 01:26 UTC