Beta Heads Toward Nicaragua
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Not only software is going beta these days it seems -- but this beta is one you don't want to test. The Atlantic Ocean's 23rd named tropical system, Beta, headed toward the Nicaraguan coast Friday afternoon, and was expected to make landfall over the weekend as a Category 2 hurricane.
Portions of Nicaragua could receive up to 20 inches of rain, possibly causing life-threatening floods and mudslides, the hurricane center said. Beta is the latest storm in a season that broke a 72-year-old record for most recorded tropical storms and hurricanes. In 1933, 21 storms formed. Records have been kept continuously since 1851.