Hurricane Eta was a Category 4 hurricane that caused almost-total damage for parts of Central America in early November 2020. The twenty-eighth named storm, twelfth hurricane and fifth major hurricane of the very active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Eta originated from a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 31. The system rapidly organized as it moved west, with the cyclone becoming a Category 4 hurricane on November 3. Peaking with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) and 923 mbar, it was the third most intense November Atlantic hurricane on record, behind the 1932 Cuba hurricane, and Hurricane Iota just two weeks later. Some weakening took place as the system made landfall near Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, late that same day. Eta rapidly weakened to a tropical depression as it moved across Central America for two days before moving north over water. It later reorganized over the Caribbean as it quickly moved toward Cuba on November 7. Over the next five days, the system moved oddly, moving through the Florida Keys, before moving into the southern Gulf of Mexico. Only reaching hurricane strength for a short time, it weakened once more and quickly moved across the Southeastern United States on November 12. It soon became extratropical and dissipated the next day.