Iota became the thirteenth hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dangerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras -- countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta.

Forecasters warned that Iota could power up quickly, to major hurricane strength, as it approaches Central America late Sunday or Monday, and wreak more havoc in a region where people are still grappling with the aftermath of Eta.

Typhoon Vamco passed north of Manila between Bulacan and Pampanga provinces overnight Wednesday and early Thursday, toppling power poles and trees and damaging homes.

Officials had said previously that nearly 200,000 people had been evacuated, some of them forcibly, from vulnerable coastal and low-lying areas.

Eta swept over South Florida after striking Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane and killing nearly 70 people from Mexico to Panama.

Forecasters say a record-breaking 29th named storm has formed in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.

The system was centred about 410 kilometres southeast of Cozumel island in Mexico Sunday morning, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Beta was the ninth named storm that made landfall in the continental U.S. this year, tying a record set in 1916.

The former hurricane regained some of its power over the Atlantic Ocean, in an extremely rare comeback for a storm on the verge of dying out.

Two peaks of the storm are expected Tuesday evening and Wednesday late morning.