TROPICAL STORM ELSA HITS CUBA

  • 06/07/2021

The Tropical storm Elsa has hit Cuba with winds reaching speeds of 95 km per hour in the region."Meteorological radar confirmed that at 1.40 p.m. on Monday, Elsa made landfall at the Cienaga de Zapata (Zapata Swamp), on the southern coast of the western province of Matanzas," reported the Institute of Meteorology (Insmet).

Insmet experts hope the storm will weaken as it moves inland on its way out to sea again at an unspecified point between Matanzas and the western province of Artemisa.

Rain will continue to affect the central region of the country, with heavy rainfall in some locations, mainly in mountainous areas.Warnings are still in effect for Sancti Spiritus, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Mayabeque and Havana.

The storm, which reached sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour to classify as a Category 1 hurricane on the 1-to-5 Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity, weakened slightly on July 3 into a tropical storm.
Elsa is the first hurricane of the hurricane season in the Caribbean, which runs from June 1 to November 30, preceded by tropical storms Ana, Bill, Claudette and Danny.

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