But by Tuesday night, the winds had fallen to 50 mph (80 kph) as Iota weakened to a tropical storm but heavy rainfall continued, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. "We need food and water for the population, because we lost our crops with Eta," he told Reuters. The double punch of Eta and Iota marked the first time two major hurricanes had formed in the Atlantic basin in November since records began. Panama's government said a person had died in its western Ngabe-Bugle region due to conditions caused by the storm. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said flooding from Iota risked causing disaster after Eta.
