The eighth month of the year represents the most active of the hurricane season, from June 1 to November 30 in the geographic area of the North Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, a Cuban expert stated.
During this month alone, 19 hurricanes hit the Cuban archipelago between 1791 and 2022, equivalent to 16% of all those that hit the country in 231 years, argued Professor Luis E. Ramos Guadalupe, Coordinator of the History Commission of the Cuban Meteorological Society.
The typical trajectories of these hydrometeorological phenomena are characterized by their large peripheral area around the North Atlantic anticyclone, which is of no interest to the national territory, he added in a comment to the Cuban News Agency.
More important, he continued, are its two main longitudinal axes: one running north and another moving through the south of the nation.
This means that, at that time, several hurricanes impacted the country without their centers directly crossing it in a similar direction.
He mentioned that the last hurricane to hit the country at that time was named Ida, which in 2021 caused moderate damage in the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud and in the province of Pinar del Río.
For Ramos Guadalupe, during this period there is a notable increase in cyclogenesis in the Atlantic, a factor that must be taken into account because the low tropical cyclone activity that characterizes July, as has occurred in 2023, leads to a lack of public awareness of the maximum cyclone danger that lurks between August and October.
Consequently, it is essential to be prepared and alert, he warned.
Source: www.acn.cu
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