It seemed as if a pandemic wasn’t enough for the year 2020 so two hurricanes were sent– Eta, category 4, and Iota, category 5.

The first one was hurricane Eta which struck Nicaragua as a category 4 starting on November 1 all the way to November 14.

Right after was hurricane Iota who destroyed once again Nicaragua and as well Honduras, Guatemala, and Colombia. 

According to the National System for Prevention and Attention to Disasters, approximately 99.5 percent of properties on the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast are without electricity. 

This year’s hurricane season has been prolonged. 

A typical time frame would be from May to September, with September being the worst month of the year for hurricanes. 

It is November and hurricanes are still happening.

There has been an incredible amount of hurricanes that the Greek alphabet had to be used.

The question is if it is due to climate change or if it’s just a pattern overtime?

According to CBS news weather, 45 percent of people believe that it is because of climate change. 

However it is still a theory as not enough research has been done to officially blame climate change.Scientists do recognize that climate change is a contributing factor yet not all there is to blame. 

The La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific causes less winds in the Atlantic, making it another theory.

Hurricane Eta primarily hit Nicaragua and Honduras, then Honduras and the region of those countries and finally Florida. 

Hurricane Eta was ranked a category 4 hurricane however when it struck Florida it had decreased to a tropical storm .

Approximately 150 people have lost their lives because of Hurricane Eta. 

In places like Honduras, Covid-19 had already left the majority of the country unemployed.

In addition, Eta has increased the cases of COVID-19; 2100 cases in two weeks following the hurricane. 

According to Honduras emergency response unit, 2.9 million people were affected by Eta in Honduras. 

The communities affected by Eta didn’t even have time to get themselves back on their feet because Hurricane Iota came in.

Iota started on November 13 and ended on the 18th. 

In Nicaragua, 17 people have died, two of them children. 

Over 47,000 homes are without water and 114,000 homes have a power outage. 

In Honduras 61,000 people are living in shelters, according to the Permanent Contingency Commission of Honduras.  

At least 30 deaths from Hurricane Iota have been reported. 

Both hurricanes created a humanitarian crisis in Central America.

With the spotlight on election outcomes in the United States, these countries have not been able to get the attention that they are in need of.