Tropical Storm Elsa, Back to the water surface, but still produces heavy rain Cuba, Which is expected to be close to the lower Florida According to the National Hurricane Center, Keys and Dry Tortugas on Tuesday.
Governor Ron DeSantis (Ron DeSantis) extended the existing state of emergency on Monday to cover a dozen counties in an area of ​​Florida, and Elsa is expected to pass quickly on Wednesday.
Elsa landed near Cienega de Zapata in Cuba on Monday afternoon, a sparsely populated natural park. It crosses the island to the northwest and Havana to the east.
Later on Monday, Elsa’s maximum sustained wind speed increased to 60 mph (95 km/h). Its core is located approximately 20 miles (35 kilometers) north-east of Havana and 80 miles (130 kilometers) south-southwest of Key West, Florida. It is moving north-northwest at a speed of 12 mph (19 km/h).
When Elsa flew over Cuba, there were no early reports of serious damage.
“The wind is very strong and the rain is very heavy. Some water seeps in from under my door. In the yard, the water level is high, but it did not enter the house,” Lazaro Ramon Sosa, a craftsman and photographer living in the town of Cienega de Zapata, told Mei by phone. Associated Press.
Souza said that he saw some avocado trees falling nearby.
Although Havana was the first to miss the storm, many people in the capital stayed where they were.
“Now, I’m staying at home. We have to wait till night to see what happens,” Ida Herrera, who lives next to Malecon Avenue facing the sea, told the Associated Press.
Elsa was parallel to Cuba’s southern coast for most of Sunday and Monday before landing, protecting most of the island from major impacts. As a precaution, Cuban officials have evacuated 180,000 people in case the storm has hit several Caribbean islands and killed at least three people.
The National Hurricane Center said the storm is expected to approach the Florida Keys early on Tuesday, and then pass near or over the west coast of Florida later on Tuesday and before Wednesday.
Tropical storm warnings have been issued from the Florida Keys from Craig Key west to Dry Tortugas and from Flamingo north to the west coast of Florida on the Ochlockonee River.
Elsa was the first hurricane of the Atlantic season until Saturday morning and caused extensive damage to several islands in the eastern Caribbean on Friday. As a tropical storm, it caused the death of one person on the island of Saint Lucia, a 15-year-old boy and a 75-year-old woman in different events in the Dominican Republic.
Brian McNaughty, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said that Elsa was the first fifth storm on record.
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