Eta is now an almost Cat5 hurricane (150mph) moving slowly at 5mph

[malaise]

as it makes landfall in Nicaragua



On this historic say let's spare a thought for the folks in Nicaragua



Killa Con is facing his own Cat5 defeat today

[Lochloosa]

1. Looks like it may come for a visit in a few days malaise.

[malaise]

3. We're all watching to see what happens when it reenters the Caribbean sea

Saw something in the Sun Sentinel last night.
What a season

[mahina]

2. How do people live through these storms?

Dump, I dont worry about.

[mdelaguna]

4. Oh I feel for those in Nicaragua

ESP in rural, poor areas - last thing they need right now...

[beachbumbob]

5. the problem will be reforming and restrengthening when remenants return to warm water

I am not any thing near a trained meteorologist but almost every forecaster of almost every hurricane has under estimated the building strength by ignoring the basic data of warm water feeds storms. 3 days ago his was predicted to be Cat 1 or maybe a Cat 2 when it hit central america.

[malaise]

6. The same thing happened with Hurricane Marie and Dominica

and then Puerto Rico. Harvey also blew up in no time and created havoc in Texas as did Laura in Louisiana. If memory serves me right all of them (including Eta) slowed down big time.

[beachbumbob]

7. almost all hurricanes that hit US did the same this year, upsizing strengh before landfall

[BumRushDaShow]

8. I surely didn't like that path shift 'cause I was thinking of you!

[malaise]

11. It's still raining here

This may be worse than 1979 and 1986. Word is it will stop raining by Thursday - if Eta doesn't decide to head this way again.

[Gato Moteado]

9. i'm in extreme southern pacific costa rica at the moment...

...at the beach in pavones and it's been raining constantly since yesterday. i'm sure this is the effect of the storm. i'm booked to go out for big tuna tomorrow as a celebration (hopefully) of a trump loss. not sure if we'll be going out on the water with this weather.

[malaise]

12. Stay out of the water for now

The tuna aren't going anywhere

[modrepub]

10. Eye Seems To Be Filling In

May be slightly weakening. If there is any bright side it is that the storm itself is pretty small. NHC discussions don't seem to indicate that the normal hurricane hunter airplanes are sampling the storm (maybe because it's not a threat to the US or their budget has been exceeded, IDK).

[malaise]

13. It's on land now

No coast can handle a nearly Cat5 storm and Nicaragua is less prepared than our islands. Hope people evacuated inland.

[JCMach1]

14. Replay Of hurricane Mitch...

That's not a good thing

[malaise]

15. In many ways - dates, strength, speed but not the track

and I hope the deaths aren't that high. Honduras got the worst of that one.

[JCMach1]

20. Just imaging raining out over those mountains.

[malaise]

21. We've been facing that with the outer bands

but at least we don't have the wind. We can't take much more rain.

[Solly Mack]

16. Dang.

That's scary.

[clutterbox1830]

17. wow! you should track the path of this storm on windy.com

This storm path is so hard to predict after hitting Central America.

https://www.windy.com/

Right now, the model has it hitting CA and linger there and pick up steam and hit Cuba and south Florida and then slowly going back to the gulf and picking up more steam and again become a major hurricane again and possibly hit FL a second time.

[malaise]

18. Frightening indeed

Sun Sentinel suggested yesterday that folks in Florida pay attention - still that is next week if it happens. Depends on how it shows down and what happens after that.

[greytdemocrat]

19. Explosive growth

of these storms this year has been
unreal...