MIAMI, United States. – The strong rains that have affected eastern Cuba in recent days flooded the Cándido González stadium, in the province of Camagüey.
The sports facility woke up underwater this Friday, leaving images that have gone viral on social networks.
“The Cándido González stadium and its surroundings right now in Camagüey. It hurts a lot”, the Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) in the province pointed out on its Facebook account.
Camagüey is one of the provinces most affected by rainfall. In recent days, the rains have also left dozens of landslides in the province, some of them total, mainly in the provincial capital.
The Cuban Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) warned today that the activity of showers, rains and electrical storms will continue in a large part of the country, becoming strong and intense in some locations, mainly in the central and eastern regions.
He Special Notice No. 3 of that organization indicates that “strong and intense rains persist in the central and eastern regions of Cuba, with significant accumulations during the last 24 hours, mainly from Camagüey to the province of Santiago de Cuba and in isolated localities of Matanzas, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spirits”.
The network of rain gauges from INSMET and the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH) has reported significant accumulations in 53 rain gauges, with rainfall above 100 millimeters, registering in 14 of them accumulations that exceed 200 millimeters.
At the national level, the largest cumulatives have been registered in the province of Granma, specifically in the towns of Las Mercedes (360 mm), Ciudad Escolar Camilo Cienfuegos (294.9 mm), Charco Redondo (280.3 mm), Jiguaní ( 259.8 mm) and Ox Diverter (250 mm).
The rains in eastern Cuba are related “to the persistence of a trough in the middle and upper levels of the troposphere over the Gulf of Mexico, which maintains a humid flow from the southwest over the entire country, in combination with atmospheric instability and local factors”.
