MIAMI, United States — The Cuban authorities decreed this Saturday the information phase from the province of Cienfuegos to Pinar del Río, including the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, due to the advance of tropical storm Ian.
The National Civil Defense Staff of Cuba warned in a release that the meteor “has slightly gained in organization and intensity with a tendency to increase in its areas of heavy rains in the vicinity of its center of circulation” and that, therefore, it represents a potential danger for the Caribbean country.
The information phase was established at eight in the morning today and was extended to the provinces of Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Matanzas, Mayabeque, Havana, Artemisa, Pinar del Río and the Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality.
The Civil Defense indicated that the provinces in the center of the country must also monitor the evolution of the tropical storm, as well as the possible influence of the rains in their respective territories.
“The population is directed to keep up to date with the information from the Institute of Meteorology and Civil Defense, through the media and the official profiles of social networks and to comply in a disciplined manner with the instructions given by the local authorities”, concludes the note, released by the state press.
According to him National Hurricane Center of the United States (NHC, for its acronym in English), at 11 am today Ian was 435 kilometers south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and 840 kilometers southeast of the island of Grand Cayman.
The system maintained maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, and moved west at a rate of 24 km/h.
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