Category 4 Hurricane Eta is banging on the door of Nicaragua as it slowly crawls toward the coast with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph and a forecast of life-threatening storm surge, mudslides and catastrophic winds, the National Hurricane Center said.
The 12th hurricane of the year's maximum sustained winds jumped from 90 mph to 150 mph in just a few hours Monday evening, and Eta has kept that wind speed through the night as it moves west-southwest at a snail pace of 4 mph, according to the NHC's 8 a.m. EST update Tuesday. The storm is 30 miles southeast of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
