At a Glance Hurricane Eta is forecast to produce catastrophic flooding in parts of Central America.Flooding from Hurricane Mitch in 1998 killed thousands in Central America.Eta's forecast has some things in common with Mitch. Hurricane Eta's potentially catastrophic strike in Central America is stirring memories of another deadly storm 22 years ago: Hurricane Mitch, which claimed thousands of lives in Honduras and Nicaragua. According to the National Hurricane Center, catastrophic storm surge flooding may occur along the northeast Nicaraguan coast,...

Meteorologist Heather Tesch looks at the forecast for Eta's potential impacts to Florida ...

At a Glance It has characteristics of both a tropical storm and a non-tropical low-pressure system.Its strongest winds tend to be farther from the center than in a tropical storm.They're not hurricanes, but can eventually evolve into tropical storms. Subtropical storms can occur one or more times each hurricane season and are a hybrid of two different, familiar storm types. To explain subtropical storms, we need to start by explaining these two different storm types with which subtropical storms share...