Cuba removes 70,000 as Elsa continues its course | Weather News

The tropical storm warning applies to parts of Cuba and Jamaica, as well as parts of Florida to Florida.

Cuba has displaced 70,000 people in the southern part of the island Hurricane Elsa could cause catastrophic floods after three people were killed in the Caribbean by a hurricane.

The hurricane warning covers several parts of Cuba, including Havana, as well as Jamaica, the Florida Keys and the southwest coast of Florida, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of Miami. He said Sunday morning.

The Cuban government has opened a shelter and moved in to protect sugarcane and cocoa plants during the storm. Most of the deportees went to relatives’ homes, while about 23,000 people sought refuge in government buildings.

The storm recorded a hurricane of 95 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour), the NHC said at 11am (15:00 GMT) on Sunday, but it could intensify throughout the day until Sunday night as it approaches the south coast of southern Cuba.

“However, the gradual weakening of the fracture is expected to occur on Monday when Elsa crosses Cuba. When Elsa landed in the Florida Straits and southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, there was little encouragement, “the agency said.

Elsa was a typhoon storm 1 to Saturday morning, disrupting the spread of several islands in the eastern Caribbean on Friday as the first hurricane in the Atlantic.

The storm killed one person in Saint Lucia, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

Meanwhile, a 15-year-old child and a 75-year-old mother died Saturday in separate incidents in the Dominican Republic after walls collapsed, according to a statement from the Emergency Operations Center.

Barbados was also the worst-affected area, with more than 1,100 people reporting damage to homes, including 62 houses that had collapsed as the government promised to find and provide long-term housing allowance to prevent people living in camps during the epidemic.

Lower-cut trees also say in Haiti, where there is a risk of floods and landslides due to erosion and deforestation.

At 11am ET (15:00 GMT) on Sunday, the hurricane was about 80km (50 miles) north of the Jamaican capital, Kingston.

Elsa is expected to bring more rain to 20cm (8 inches) in Jamaica, some areas up to 38cm (15 inches), while Cuba can see a storm of more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) in some areas.