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HAVANA (Reuters) -Tropical storm Elsa made landfall near Cuba’s Bay of Pigs on its south-central coast on Monday and started plowing through the island nation, on track to Florida after causing at least three deaths elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Cuba’s Meteorology Institute said Elsa, which had previously wreaked havoc in parts of Barbados, St. Lucia, Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, was moving northwest at 22 km (14 miles) per hour, and that sustained winds were peaking near 95 kmph (59 mph)
Storm surges were affecting Cuba’s southern coast, while parts of the country experienced strong rain and winds, the institute said. Meteorologists said the rains from Elsa could prove positive for agriculture as long as they were not too intense.
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Havana, Jul 5 (EFE).- Tropical Storm Elsa made landfall just after midday on Monday at a spot on Cuba’s Zapata Peninsula, on the southern coast of the western province of Matanzas, the Meteorology Institute (Insmet) reported.
Elsa is moving at 22 kilometers (13.5 miles) per hour with maximum sustained winds of 100 kph ((62 mph) and is predicted to remain over Cuban territory for about eight hours dumping heavy rain on the island’s western and central zones.
Forecasts indicate that the storm will leave Cuba Monday evening heading northwest after passing over the provinces of Artemisa, La Habana and Mayabeque, where a weather “alarm” has been declared by the Cuban Civil Defense authorities.
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HAVANA (Reuters) -Tropical storm Elsa’s center exited Cuba late on Monday, just east of Havana, churning northwards on track to Florida although the lopsided weather system continued to dump heavy rains over the Caribbean’s largest island in its wake.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its 11 p.m. (0300 GMT) update that Elsa was advancing at just 19 km per hour (12 mph) as it moved out to sea and sustained winds had picked up to peak near 95 kmph with higher gusts.
Storm surges were affecting Cuba’s southern coast and would start occurring on the northern coast too, the Cuban meteorology institute said, causing light flooding in the capital in lower lying coastal areas such as along its famous Malecon seaside corniche.