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The hurricane caused significant damage in Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, both located off the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. [3] The Cozumel boardwalk was wrecked. [12] Wilma left parts of the Quintana Roo mainland without power, water, and gas. [8] The storm damaged businesses, gas stations, and warehouses. [12]
Hurricane Zeta was a late-season tropical cyclone in 2020 that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and then in southeastern Louisiana, the latest on record to do so at such strength in the United States.
The WMO did not retire the names of several 2020 hurricanes that caused extensive damage, specifically: Isaias, Sally, Delta and Zeta. This made Sally, the most destructive of the four, with a damage total of around $7.3 billion (2020 USD), the most expensive non-retired North Atlantic hurricane on record. [124] [126] [127]
A Category 4 hurricane will do catastrophic damage: “Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months,” the weather service says.
Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall as a hurricane just north of the ancient Mayan city of Tulum.
The hurricane that made landfall at about 6:30 a.m. ET was forecast to bring a life-threatening storm surge that would raise water levels in parts of the Yucatan to as much as 8 to 12 feet above ...
Hurricane Eta in early November also caused $7 billion (2020 USD) in damage and was the deadliest storm of the season, causing over two hundred deaths as it crossed the vast majority of Central America and eventually made three more landfalls: one in Cuba, and two in Florida.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record in terms of number of named storms. Additionally, it was an above-average season for tropical cyclones for the fifth consecutive year. [nb 1] [2] The season officially began on June 1, 2020, and ended on November 30, 2020.