The storm later reorganized over the Caribbean as it accelerated toward Cuba on November 7, making a second landfall on the next day. Eta rapidly weakened to a tropical depression and briefly degenerated to a remnant low as it meandered across Central America for two days, before regenerating into a tropical depression and moving north over water. Some weakening took place as the system made landfall near Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, late that same day. With a peak intensity of 150 mph (240 km/h) and 922 millibars (922 hPa 27.2 inHg), it was the third most intense November Atlantic hurricane on record, behind the 1932 Cuba hurricane and Hurricane Iota, the latter of which formed just two weeks later in the same area.
The system rapidly organized as it progressed west, with the cyclone ultimately becoming a Category 4 hurricane on November 3. The record-tying twenty-eighth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and sixth major hurricane of the extremely-active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Eta originated from a vigorous tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 31.
Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic Category 4 hurricane that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. Part of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
