Agatha The Storm

Landslides and flooding triggered by tropical storm Agatha have killed at least 180 people in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.Dozens were still missing on Tuesday with rescuers struggling to reach rural communities.
Collapsed roads and bridges complicated rescue efforts in Guatemala, which was worst hit by Saturday's storm."We're trying to get to the communities but we're finding that bridges are down and we have to walk, so it is taking so much longer," Rony Veliz, a firefighter, said.

Tens of thousands of people across the region remain in emergency shelters three days after Agatha hit into western Guatemala, causing more than one metre of rain in places and raising concern over the coffee crop there and in El Salvador.
The European Union has announced $3.6m of humanitarian aid for the countries hit.
"When disaster strikes, action must be taken rapidly, be well targeted and based on needs," Kristalina Georgieva, the European humanitarian aid commissioner, said on Tuesday.
"With the aid we are allocating today we are making an immediate gesture of European solidarity for the people of the region."
She stressed that the EU will continue to monitor the situation closely, "in case further needs arise."
Ludwin Ovalle, the Guatemalan health minister, said outbreaks of dengue andmalaria were likely in the coming days.
"We will see outbreaks because of stagnant water," he said.
Collapsing homes
At least 152 people have died in Guatemala, either killed as their homes collapsed or swept away by swollen rivers. About 100 others were missing, according to the government.
The rain has stopped in the capital, Guatemala City, but giant sinkholes created death traps on streets, swallowing entire buildings as they opened up.
In El Salvador, around 11,000 people have been evacuated to shelters.
Gerson Martinez, the transportation minister, said about 95 per cent of roads were affected by landslides, but they remained open for public use.
He also said 179 bridges had been damaged.

Pacaya Eruption

Pacaya is an active complex volcano in Guatemala, which first erupted approximately 23,000 years ago and has erupted at least 23 times since the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Pacaya rises to an elevation of 2,552 metres (8,373 ft). After being dormant for a century, it erupted violently in 1965 and has been erupting continuously since then. Much of its activity is Strombolian, but occasional Plinian eruptions also occur, sometimes showering the nearby city of Antigua with ash.
Pacaya is a popular tourist attraction. Pacaya lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Guatemala City and close to Antigua The volcano sits inside the Escuintla Department.
In the late 1990s, there were frequent armed robberies on its slopes, which negatively affected tourism. However, by 2006, reports of violence decreased in line with increased security efforts by the government. Guatemalan and foreign tourism have increased.

So far, the last activity reported has been the eruption that peaked on May 27, 2010, causing ash to rain down in Guatemala City, Antigua and Escuintla.

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Hurricane Stan

Hurricane Stan originated from a tropical wave that was first identified by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) off the west coast of Africa on September 17, 2005. Traveling westward, the wave remained weak, barely being notable. By September 22, before convection began to increase; however, wind shear in the region prevented this development from lasting. The system entered the Caribbean Sea several days later, a region with more favorable conditions for cyclonic development. Intermittent convection formed around the wave as it moved west-northwestward before the development maintained itself.On October 1, the system had become sufficiently organized for the NHC to classify it as Tropical Depression Twenty, with the center of circulation situated roughly 135 mi (215 km) souhteast of Cozumel, Mexico

Located to the south of a low to mid-level tropospheric ridge, the depression tracked towards the west-northwest. Within a few hours of being warned upon, the system further intensified into Tropical Storm Stan. This followed the development of a strong convective banding feature to the southeast of the storm's center.[3] Around 1000 UTC (5 a.m. CDT) on October 2, Stan made its first landfall near Punta Hualaxtoc, Mexico, roughly 35 mi (55 km) south of Tulum, with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). Over the following 18 hours, the weak storm traversed the southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. Upon entering the Gulf of Mexico on October 3, Stan had weakened to a tropical depression; however, convection began to redevelop over the storm's center, allowing the system to re-attain tropical storm status.

Was the eighteenth named tropical storm and eleventh hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the sixth of seven tropical cyclones (three hurricanes, two of them major, three tropical storms and one tropical depression) to make landfall in Mexico. Stan was a relatively weak storm that only briefly reached hurricane status. It was embedded in a larger non-tropical system of rainstorms that dropped torrential rains in the Central American countries of Guatemala and El Salvador and in southern Mexico, causing flooding and mudslides that led to 1,638 fatalities. Throughout the affected countries, the storm left roughly $3.9 billion in damage.