The afternoon of Wednesday was particularly sweltering in Cuba, where a total of 24 weather stations reported temperatures exceeding 95 degrees Fahren.
Some 1.6 million people in the US State of Florida were to evacuate their homes in the coming hours as Hurricane Idalia has been forecast to make landfall on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the northwest of the state with Category 3 winds (111 mph or 178 kph) Wednesday.
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