Hurricane Iota Hit Nicaragua With Extreme Winds and Tidal Surge

Hurricane Iota, which reached the highest category (5) on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, downgraded to category 2 as it passed through Nicaragua early Tuesday morning, although it still represents a grave danger to the Central American country.

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Nicaragua's Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter) reported that at 3h00 local time the hurricane, already a category 2, had maximum sustained winds of 165 kilometers per hour. 

Iota, which has already left one person dead in its path through the San Andres Island, in the Caribbean Sea, reached Nicaragua in the first hours of this Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of almost 250 kilometers per hour and qualified by the meteorologists as "extremely dangerous".

At 3h00, it was 23 kilometers south-east of Rosita and 52 kilometers east of Siuna, moving 15 kilometers west.