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Iota Expected to Weaken to Tropical Depression Overnight

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   Iota continues to pound Nicaragua with strong winds and heavy rains
   even after weakening from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

   As of late Tuesday night, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said
   Iota was carrying maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers an hour on a
   path towards Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

   Forecasters say Tropical Storm Iota will dump between 7 to 20
   kilometers of rain on a stretch of Central America from southern
   Nicaragua to southern Belize overnight, leading to "significant,
   life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding," along with
   mudslides in higher areas. The storm is expected to weaken to a
   tropical depression through the night before dissipating sometime
   Wednesday.

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