41274630 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.rappler.com/world/latin-america/hurricane-iota-updates-november-17-2020US forecasters at the National Hurricane Center warn of 'life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and landslides' in Central AmericaTue, 17 Nov 2020 08:59:00 +0100rappler-6be429350114839ac2a82a859946d3a220201117085900https://www.thejournal.ie/huricane-iota-nicaragua-5269362-Nov2020/THE FRONT EDGE of powerful Hurricane Iota has battered Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, threatening catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already hit by equally strong Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Iota had intensified into an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm early....Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:58:00 +0100thejournal-0bb132e90315e77fcb624deecb445e3a20201117085800https://mia.mk/hurricane-iota-makes-landfall-in-nicaragua/?lang=enThe storm made landfall in nearly exactly the same place as Eta, a Category 4 hurricane that battered the area two weeks ago. Iota is forecast to bring catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge as high as 20 feet, and nearly two feet of rain to Central America.Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:55:00 +0100mia-mk-26b29e37d0c0c63bf5794b221f270a9320201117085500https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-iota-path-2020-central-america-caribbean-category-4/Iota made landfall just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta landed weeks ago. Eta's torrential rains saturated the soil, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods. Forecasters warned the storm surge could reach a shocking 15 to 20 feet above normal tides.Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:53:00 +0100google-top-stories-43047299549a9b010cb88b0ee79d855d20201117085300