AREQUIPA, Peru – The National General Staff of the Civil Defense in Cuba decided to establish the information phase due to intense rains starting at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday for the provinces of Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Granma and Las Tunas.
Information note number 1, published by the organization and the official press of the Cuban regime, specifies that the rest of the provinces and the Special Municipality of the Isle of Youth must be attentive to the development of the hydrometeorological situation.
The text explains that a trough over the Atlantic Ocean, which extends to the vicinity of the Lesser Antilles and the seas north of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, has strong nuclei associated with activity of showers, rains and electrical storms that are They are approaching the eastern end of Cuba.
This situation, together with the instability generated by the large area of low pressure, located in the south of the Caribbean Sea, will increase cloudiness with showers, rains and thunderstorms starting today in the provinces of the eastern region, he adds.
Starting this weekend, and throughout next week, very favorable conditions for rainfall will prevail throughout the country, a situation that keeps the Cuban authorities on alert.
In this regard, the general director of the National Institute of Meteorology (INSMET), Celso Pazos Alberdi, pointed out that the main assessment is aimed at the phenomenon of rain: “We maintain total surveillance,” he stressed.
It is expected, according to the manager, that in the coming days a low pressure center will appear in that area, whose general movement would occur between the north and the northwest; which, in any case, would bring the meteorological phenomenon closer to the southern coast of Cuban territory.
The information phase to the four Cuban provinces comes just three weeks after the devastating passage of Hurricane Oscar through the east of the Island.
According to the communication transmitted in the official Caribbean Channeleight people died and two children were injured during the passage of the cyclone. Two other Cubans remain missing according to the regime’s data.
Precipitation and a possible tropical depression
He National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Cuban Meteorological Institute (INSMET) reported this Friday on the high probability of a tropical depression developing in the southwest of the Caribbean Sea during the next few days.
The system could form from a broad area of low pressure that is likely to develop over the next 12 to 24 hours.
According to the NHC, in its outlook issued at 2:00 pm this Friday, “gradual development is possible thereafter, and a tropical depression is likely to form late this weekend or early next weekend.” week as the system moves generally northward or northwestward over the central or western Caribbean Sea.”
The probability of formation up to seven days, according to the NHC, is high (70%).
