Another big hurricane headed into Nicaragua. This is the year of repeat visitations for cyclones and hurricanes. Central Vietnam gets hit twice. The central Louisiana coast gets hit twice. And now Nicaragua is having a second hurricane plough in following the Category Four Hurricane Eta just two weeks ago, on pretty much the same stretch of coast. Incredibly though it's November Hurricane Iota is clocking in as a Category Five hurricane, as high as they go. These are almost unheard of this time of year, and for accumulated cyclone energy we're looking at probably the most intense year since 1932. This was has also explosively intensified over the last two days, dropping 60mb in pressure, and it's projected by some models to ride onto shore at 909mb. I don't think I can ever remember a November hurricane being so strong. Thankfully aside from one big town under-the-gun the coastline is sparsely populated as Nicaragua is smart and knows not to build cities in that part of the world - all their big cities are located well, well inland. But this is probably going to be another big rain-maker for Honduras and Nicaragua and cause more landslides, as their soils are already soaked from Eta. Hurricane Iota is at least mercifully projected to go into the Pacific away from the land after exiting Honduras, sparing at least the usual game of pinball this year as hurricanes careen about the Gulf of Mexico.