Tropical Storm Julia is drifting westward through Nicaragua, bringing what the National Hurricane Center warns could be “life-threatening flash floods and mudslides” in Central America and southern Mexico.
reported that several thousand people in Nicaragua were evacuated from low-lying coastal areas ahead of the storm and that local news media showed images of trees down across roads.Before crashing ashore in Central America, Julia swept across the Colombian islands of Providencia and San Andrés just east of Nicaragua.
Colombia’s national disaster risk management unit reported that five homes on San Andrés had lost roofs and four sectors of the island experienced flooding.W Radio on Sunday morning that authorities were able to begin evaluating the condition of the islands around 2 a.m. and found several fallen trees on homes and roof tiles ripped off houses. About four or five homes in Providencia were damaged, Hawkins said.
Julia is the 10th named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. The season to date has defied forecasts of an active season, with activity thus far only about 81 percent of average. That is based on a metric of accumulated cyclone energy, a figure that takes into account the intensity and duration of a storm. It is a rough estimate for how much energy storms expend on their strong winds.
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