February, one of the two coldest months of the year

 HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 9 (ACN) The second month of the year is the fourth of the period of little rainfall in Cuba, which extends until April, and is expected to see as many cold fronts as in January, when the average temperature reached 22.7 °C.

Such a phenomenon affects the frequent appearance of winter conditions, according to forecasters from the Climate Center of the Institute of Meteorology.

“Normally, it is one of the two coldest months of the year, marked by cooler masses of air acting according to the physical-geographical features of the relevant region,” they add. “However, the tendency of the average temperature in the last decades is to increase in tune with the reduction of the minimum temperatures, so 27.3 °C, 27.8 °C and 28.3 °C are forecasted for this period in western, central and eastern Cuba, respectively.”

Cuba had four cold fronts in January, three of them classified as classic and one as a veering, when the winds shift. The last of them—the season’s 9th—reached the Cuban archipelago around midnight on January 28, and it stood out for being extremely cold due to the effects of a mass of air Arctic polar origin that arrived in its wake.

As to rainfall, the forecasters explained that they depend on the frontal systems affecting Cuba. They estimate for February 31.5 mm in the west, 23.0 in the center and 33.8 in the east.