Iota forecast to become category 4 hurricane by Monday night - U.S. NHC

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Iota has strengthened into a “major hurricane” and is expected to intensify further into a category 4 storm by Monday night, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Iota, now a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, was located about 45 miles (70 km) east-northeast of Isla De Providencia, Colombia, packing maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour (205 km per hour). (Reporting by Diptendu Lahiri in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue)