Storm Eta dumps heavy rain on Central America, sets path to Florida

Residents walk along a road with debris dragged by a river during flooding caused by rains from Storm Eta, in Toyos, Honduras November 4, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

MANAGUA/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Storm Eta pummeled Nicaragua and Honduras with torrential rain on Wednesday after triggering major floods and landslides in Central America, reportedly killing at least three people and stranding dozens of fishermen in the Atlantic.

Eta, one of the most powerful storms to strike Central America in years, hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, before weakening to a tropical storm as it forged inland in the impoverished country.