Hurricane Julia made landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday morning as a Category 1 storm with winds of 85 mph.
The Atlantic hurricane season has just under two months remaining, so it’s not unusual for the tropics to remain active in October. The month ranks as the third-most active for tropical activity in the Atlantic Basin, typically producing about two named storms each year, one of which becomes a hurricane.Hurricane Julia is centered about 60 miles to the west-northwest of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.
The Atlantic hurricane season has just under two months remaining, so it’s not unusual for the tropics to remain active in October.Julia is then expected to move near or along the Pacific coasts of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala on Monday and Monday night. said. “The dynamics in the atmosphere are pretty much locked in stone, and so we’re not going to see a huge variability with the forecast itself.”People get into a pickup truck to be transported to a safe zone while Hurricane Julia hits the coasts with wind and rain, in Bluefields, Nicaragua.A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Nicaragua from Bluefields to Puerto Cabezas.means hurricane-force winds are expected somewhere in the warning area.
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