Mexico City: The Category 1 hurricane Zeta, the eleventh of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, has made landfall in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, carrying with it maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, as indicated by weather officials.
It made landfall late Monday night subsequent to growing into a hurricane prior in the day, the USA Today announced in a news report.
As per forecasters, Zeta is assumed to hit the already-battered US Gulf Coast in the not so distant future.
Zeta is probably going to re-strengthen as it moves over the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the forecasters included.
Ahead of the landfall, the government had given a hurricane warning for the Yucatan Peninsula from Tulum to Dzilam, and a hurricane warning was in force south of Tulum, west of Dzilam and Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
Local officials are paying attention to the storm, yet with an unmistakably less alarmed tone than when Hurricane Delta grew into a Category 4 storm off the coast three weeks back.
In the interim, citizens in the US states of Florida and Louisiana, which is as yet recouping from the impacts of hurricanes Laura and Delta, were asked to stay alert before Zeta moves toward the US Gulf Coast.
A “dangerous” storm surge is assumed to raise water levels by 1 to 3 feet beyond than average tide levels along the coast in the hurricane warning zone close to where the centre is set to make landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Hurricane Centre said Zeta could carry 4 to 8 inches of a downpour to Mexico, the Cayman Islands and parts of Cuba on Tuesday before unloading 2 to 4 inches of a downpour on the Gulf Coast, Tennessee Valley, southern Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states, possibly causing flooding.
As per USA Today news, Zeta is the 27th named storm of an already historic hurricane season.
The current year’s season has a lot of storms that the hurricane centre has gone to the Greek alphabet set in the wake of running out of official names.
Zeta is the furthest into the Greek alphabet the Atlantic season has gone. In 2005, there was also a Tropical Storm Zeta.
