Powerful rains and winds that hit provinces in the west, center and east of Cuba this Monday left a complete circuit without electricity and damaged homesamong other effects, in Sancti Spíritus.
The Cuban Forecast Center He reported on his social network account X of “numerous rains” in the central area. Some also occurred in the west and were isolated in the eastern area. “Severe local storms were reported in: Matanzas, Villa. Clara, Ciego. de Ávila, Sancti. Spíritus and Las Tunas, with hail falling,” the institution added.
In Sancti Spíritus, the greatest damage caused by the rains was recorded in the communities of Iguará and Venegas, in the Yaguajay municipality, local state media reported. Escambray.
Circuit 36 was left without power, at least until dawn on Tuesday. According to the local state media, “forces of the Electric Company” had been working since midnight the previous day.
No information has been released regarding the recovery of the electrical service in that circuit of the Sancti Spiritus municipality. The damage caused by the storm in the central province coincided with the new wave of prolonged blackouts that hit Cubans one month ago.
According to the secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Yaguajay, Mileydi Milián Barnésthe preliminary damages were concentrated in the electrical networks, roofs of facilities of the Mérida Cheese Factory, the Pork Unit and dairy farms of the Venegas livestock company, as well as several homes in the settlements of Mérida and Dalia, belonging to the Council Popular Venegas.
The covers of several bus stops along the highway that links these communities in southern Yaguajay were also damaged.
According to the specialist of the forecast group of the Provincial Meteorological Center Yusmani Mesa, cited by Escambraythis Monday’s rainfall is associated with the passage through the territory of a trough.
The fall of hail and the winds confirm the magnitude of this phenomenon considered a severe local storm, explained the specialist.
Mesa reported that The Piñero Automatic Station recorded 11.2 millimeters of rain at 6:00 PM this Monday, and a wind gust of 86 km/hour.
