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Nate is the sixteenth tropical cyclone of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It formed as a tropical depression in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on 4 October at 1500UTC and it became a tropical storm on 5 October at 1200UTC before making landfall on the Nicaragua coast. Its core passed over eastern Nicaragua with tropical-storm-force winds over the Atlantic coastal area. Heavy rainfall was experienced over the coastal waters of Nicaragua, as well as tropical- storm-force winds with higher gusts.
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