Taken from the Institute of Meteorology
The Cuban Institute of Meteorology reported today about two low pressure areas, one east of the Lesser Antilles Arc and the other on central Atlantic waters, which could reach some tropical development in the next few hours.
According to the Weather Outlook report, one of these areas is located more than 275 kilometers east of the island of Barbados, the southern group of the Lesser Antilles Arc, with showers and rains around a better organized circulation center this morning.
The text refers that it is moving to the west northwest and in the next 12 to 24 hours it could reach some tropical development.
Another area of low pressure is located over waters of the central Atlantic, although with little possibility of reaching any tropical development, as it moves to the west northwest in the next few days.
In the rest of the area of the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, no tropical cyclonic development is expected in the next 12 to 24 hours, states the communication from the Forecasting Center, published on the Institute’s website.
It adds that a trough of high levels remains over western Cuba, contributing to instability; with rains in the last twenty-four hours that were registered on the Isle of Youth, more isolated in the rest of the country.
The highest accumulated by the network of meteorological stations was 27 millimeters (mm) in Punta del Este, and 21 mm in Santa Fe, both in La Isla de la Juventud.
In the rain gauges of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, 52 mm were recorded in the Cuenca Sur Aqueduct, Mayabeque, and 46 mm in the Mal País Uno Reservoir, Isla de la Juventud.
The minimum temperatures in the early morning were between 22 and 25 degrees Celsius, higher in some coastal areas; the lowest value was 21.2 degrees Celsius, recorded in Indio Hatuey, Matanzas province.
For the rest of the afternoon and night, the rains will be in towns in the interior and south coast from Artemisa and Havana to the province of Granma.