According to information from the Meteorology Institute's Forecast Center, Irma continues to be an intense category five hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

It maintains the northwest-west course, increasing the speed of translation to 28 kilometers per hour.

At six o'clock this morning his position was located 310 kilometers east-east of the Turkas and Caicos Islands, and during the morning it will move across the seas to the north of Hispaniola, with similar course and little change in translation speed.

Taking into consideration its proximity to our country, the National Staff of the Civil Defense of Cuba established the Phase of the Hurricane Alarm for the provinces of Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguin, Las Tunas, Camaguey and Ciego de Avila, the Warning Phase for Sancti Spititus, Cienfuegos and Matanzas and the Information Phase for Mayabeque, Havana and Artemisa since 11:00 hours a day. To keep the warning phase for Villa Clara, except the municipality of Caibarien, that pass to the Alarm Phase.

All organizations and agencies, economic entities and social institutions of the provinces that pass to the Phase of Hurricane Alarm must comply with the measures provided for their respective plans for disaster reduction for this phase, indicates the text that guides the population to remain attentive to the information and dutifully comply with the measures indicated by local authorities.

According to the information from the National Forecast Center of the Institute of Meteorology, Hurricane Matthew will begin to affect the southeastern region from tonight, with tropical storm force winds and coastal flooding that will increase gradually.

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