HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 2 (ACN) August is the third month of the cyclonic season in the geographical area of the North Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, where between 1791 and 2023 19 hurricanes have hit Cuba.
Overall they represent 16 % of all those that crossed the country in 232 years and of them, 9 (47 %) touched Havana, according to Professor Luis E. Ramos Guadalupe, Coordinator of the History Commission of the Cuban Meteorological Society, in a commentary sent to the Cuban News Agency.
The average trajectories of cyclones this month contain the peripheral beam of the North Atlantic anticyclone, far away and without interest for the national territory, he estimates and continues:
More important are the longitudinal axes that run parallel to the north and south coast of the archipelago, with organisms that can damage it, although its center does not touch it and geographically extended in similar direction.
The most recent hurricane to hit Cuba in the eighth month of the year was Ida, with category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale for its classification according to wind intensity, which on August 37, 2021 caused moderate damage on the Isle of Youth and Pinar del Rio.
Regarding Havana, Charley, with category 4 of 5 possible, did it 20 years ago, from 12 to 13 of 2004.
However, among the hydrometeorological events of cyclonic origin, tropical storms should be considered: there were 31 in 63 seasons from 1961 to 2023, but in that interval 6 (19%) affected the capital.
It is evident that in August there is a notable increase in the cycle genesis in the Atlantic Ocean, a factor that should be taken into account because the decrease in cyclonic activity in July may lead society to be distracted from the maximum danger that threatens in the August-September quarter.
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