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Hur­ri­cane Iota is near­ing Cen­tral Amer­i­ca as a dan­ger­ous Cat­e­go­ry 5, where it will bring poten­tial­ly cat­a­stroph­ic rain­fall flood­ing, mud­slides, storm surge and dam­ag­ing winds for the sec­ond time in two weeks.

Late Mon­day morn­ing, Iota became only the sec­ond Cat­e­go­ry 5 hur­ri­cane on record in Novem­ber and the record lat­est-in-sea­son hur­ri­cane ever to reach that inten­si­ty in the Atlantic Basin. The 1932 Cuba hur­ri­cane reached Cat­e­go­ry 5 inten­si­ty from Novem­ber 5–8.