The system, barely turned this morning into tropical depression, has sustained maximum winds of 55 kilometers per hour.
Lima, Peru – The forecast center assigned to the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) in Cuba predicted that the system located north of the Eastern region of the LSLA could evolve to tropical storm during the night of this Saturday.
A report of the state entity He points out that the extensive area of low pressures associated with an active tropical wave, continued to win in organization and intensity during the last hours, becoming on the morning of September 27 into a tropical depression.
According to the INSMET, about noon, the predominance of clouds could be appreciated in the satellite images in much of the eastern half of Cuba, with rainy areas and storms disorganized from the Bahamas to the northern portion of the Central Caribbean Sea.
At 11.00 am the tropical depression was about 180 kilometers south-southwest of the central region of the Bahamas, with a center located on the 22.0 degrees of north latitude and 76.2 degrees of west longitude.
The system has maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour, with upper gusts and a central pressure of 1.005 hectopascal. It moves slowly to the northwest at a speed of nine kilometers per hour.
The report also points out that tropical depression will remain with similar translation speed during the next few hours as its trajectory to the north-northeast, winning something else in organization and intensity, becoming during the night of this Saturday or in the early hours of Sunday morning in a tropical storm.
“This system will continue to generate instability, with high relative humidity values in its geographical environment and when combined with other local scale factors and the orography of the Cuban East, it will maintain numerous showers, rains and thunderstorms From Camagüey to Guantanamo, those who will run into the central region in the afternoon, ”warns the insmet.
Taking into account its potential impact on the island, the next tropical cyclone notice on this system will be broadcast at 6:00 pm on September 27.
