
Hurricane Nana hits Belize, then weakens over Guatemala
Hurricane Nana has made landfall in Belize and is now pushing across Guatemala as a tropical depressionByThe Associated PressSeptember 3, 2020, 9:44 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articlePUNTA GORDA, Belize -- Hurricane Nana made landfall in Belize, pelting a relatively sparsely populated stretch of the country's coast with heavy rain and wind, before weakening to a tropical depression while pushing across Guatemala on Thursday.The U.S. National Hurricane Center reported that Nana hit land between the coastal towns of Dangriga and Placencia shortly after midnight at an area around 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Belize City with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), making it barely a hurricane. The storm was moving westward at 15 mph (24 kph).Later, Nan...