The Government of Nicaragua reported this Monday that it began monitoring a meteorological disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean that has “high possibilities” of becoming a hurricane, and if it occurs, impact the Caribbean coast of the Central American country.
“We are permanently monitoring, preparing for what could be a major event, similar to the ones we have had,” Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo said through government media.
According to the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter), the meteorological disturbance, located this afternoon north of French Guiana, is moving west, a trajectory that, if it continues, would take it directly towards Nicaragua.
Murillo affirmed that the government of her husband, President Daniel Ortega, is making preparations for a possible impact of the phenomenon.
According to the most recent update from the United States’ National Hurricane Center (NHC), the disturbance has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical storm next Wednesday and a 90% chance of doing so in the next five days.
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The first lady affirmed that the preparations are carried out mainly in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACN), in the northeast of Nicaragua, which in 2020 received the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota, in categories 4 and 5, respectively of the scale Saffir-Simpson.
Murillo indicated that a national multi-threat exercise, or disaster drill, scheduled for next July 3, was postponed for the next day 9, with the objective that the resources are destined to the possible impact of the phenomenon.
In the event that the disturbance maintains its rate of development and direction west, the phenomenon would become Tropical Storm Bonnie, with a path similar to that of Hurricanes Joan (1998) and Felix (2007), which caused death and destruction. In Nicaragua.
The impact of hurricanes on the east coast of Nicaragua is common, since the Central American country has a coastline of more than 500 kilometers facing the Caribbean Sea, one of the most cyclonic areas in the world.
