The storm damaged about 75% of the houses on Roatán along the offshore Bay Islands, and there was one death in the country. In Honduras, about 1,200 homes were damaged, about half of which in towns along the coastline. Taking a similar path to Hurricane Fifi four years prior, Greta threatened to reproduce the devastating effects of the catastrophic storm however, damage and loss of life was significantly less than feared. After entering the eastern Pacific, the system re-intensified into a hurricane and was renamed Olivia, the eighteenth named storm of the 1978 Pacific hurricane season which weakened before landfall and dissipated over Chiapas on September 23. On September 19, it made landfall on Belize near Dangriga and quickly weakened into a tropical depression while crossing Guatemala and southeastern Mexico. After reaching peak winds of 130 mph (215 km/h) that day, Greta weakened while paralleling the northern Honduras coast just offshore. Two days later, the well-defined eye approached northeastern Honduras but veered to the northwest. On September 16, it became a hurricane south of Jamaica. The seventh named storm of the 1978 Atlantic hurricane season, Greta formed from a tropical wave just northwest of Trinidad on September 13, and despite being in a climatologically unfavorable area, gradually intensified while moving west-northwestward. Hurricane Greta, later Hurricane Olivia, was one of ten named Atlantic hurricanes to cross over Central America into the eastern Pacific while remaining a tropical cyclone. Windward Islands, Central America (particularly Honduras), Belize, Mexico
Hurricane Greta near peak intensity in the Gulf of Honduras on September 17
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