At 1 p.m., Category 2 Hurricane Otto has made landfall on the coast of Nicaragua near a small village.
- Otto expected to make landfall today
- Tropical Storm conditions beginning in the hurricane warning area
- Heavy rainfall will cause flash flooding and mudslides
- No threat to Florida or the US
- Hurricane Center
The center is 70 miles south of the bigger city of Bluefields, Nicaragua.
Otto is a very small hurricane, with hurricane-force winds extending outward only 15 miles from the center. Otto is the southernmost landfalling hurricane in Central America on record.
Hurricane season officially ends November 30.
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Remember that the spaghetti model plot does not indicate the strength of a system or even development at all. It only predicts where this broad area of low pressure is expected to go.