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Díaz-Canel, upon the arrival of Melissa: “It will be a very difficult night for all of Cuba”

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, warned this Tuesday, a number of hours after the direct influence of the highly effective hurricane Melissawithin the east of the island, that this “will be a very difficult night” for the whole nation.

Melissawhich beforehand crossed Jamaica as a class 5 (out of 5) on the Saffir-Simpson scale after which weakened to three earlier than rising once more to 4, is shifting by way of the Caribbean Sea in direction of japanese Cuba, the place it’s anticipated to make landfall after midnight, with sturdy winds and heavy rain.

“We have just checked with the provinces the measures before the passage of Melissa. There are more than 735,000 evacuees, and work is still continuing,” stated Díaz-Canel.

The newest estimates predict that it’s going to make landfall within the municipality of Guamá (southeast), within the neighborhood of the city of Chivirico, and that it’s going to go away the nation between six and eight hours later by way of the municipality of Banes (northeast). Its results will proceed to be felt for an additional eight or ten hours within the nation.

It will most likely arrive as a class 4, based on forecasts, shifting in direction of the northeast, with sustained winds of greater than 200 kilometers per hour, intense rains that would go away as much as 450 millimeters (liters per sq. meter) and storm surges with waves of as much as eight meters.

The results are feared devastating. Cuban authorities have warned that that is an “extremely dangerous” system as a result of likelihood of sudden flooding, sea penetration into low coastal areas, landslides and even dam breaks.