Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for POLO-20
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone POLO-20 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000745
Name POLO-20
From - To 17 Nov - 19 Nov
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 74 km/h Tropical storm
Maximum storm surge
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS NOAA 56 km/h 0 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF 104 km/h 0 m 491 mm 0.5
GFS 86 km/h 0 m 218 mm 0.5
ECMWF 61 km/h 0 m 453 mm 0.5
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 45 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Colombia’s San Andres Island Takes Stock after Hurricane IotaSat, 21 Nov 2020 02:21:00 +0100.

SAN ANDRES, Colombia – Four days after Hurricane Iota slammed this Colombian island off the coast of Nicaragua with winds in excess of 258 km/h (160 mph), an uncertain recovery was under way on Friday. Many residents of San Andres were jolt
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Hurricane Iota Barrels Towards Northeastern NicaraguaTue, 17 Nov 2020 03:39:00 +0100.

Nov 16, 2020 Hurricane Iota Barrels Towards Northeastern Nicaragua. Nicaragua is for a second time in less than three weeks is bracing for another massive hurricane. Iota, a category five storm, the strongest Atlantic weather system to form
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Belize: Hurricane Eta (MDRBZ006) Emergency Plan of ActionTue, 17 Nov 2020 00:54:00 +0100.

Country: Belize Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Please refer to the attached file. A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster On 4 November 2020, Hurricane Eta made landfall on Nicaragua’s sho
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Cayetano gets a break, hears good things about SEA games hostingSun, 15 Nov 2020 13:32:00 +0100.

Taguig-Pateros Representative and former speaker Alan Peter Cayetano can take solace in the fact that leader-delegates from different Southeast Asian (SEA) countries found the Philippines’ hosting of the SEA Games last year as praiseworthy.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (38), INFORM (1), (1),