Continued rains associated with a stationary front caused several partial collapsed structures and caused two deaths on Friday in Havana, according to official media.
The information states that among incidents reported until Friday evening was a building located central Havana, which included two households.
Fatalities were identified as 54 year old, Fidel Vega Recios and Pastora Góngora Mendoza, 60.
The note argues that the construction of several plants, which had issues with their general structure, yesterday suffered a collapse--the first at dawn, and the next at noon, according to residents of Campanario.
Numerous buildings of Havana - a city whose housing stock is 70% in fair or poor condition - are declared uninhabitable by the authorities, but tenants are reluctant to abandon them because the alternative is usually being sent to shelters and worse conditions.
RAINS CONTINUED ON SATURDAY
Almost 3 inches of rain have fallen in parts of western and central Cuba, including the city of Havana, since the time began to lash the western and central regions of the island in the early hours of Friday.
According to the island’s forecast center of the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET), continued heavy rainfall continued Saturday morning in the north coast of the province of Artemisa. In the town of Bahía Honda rain did in fact reach the 3 inch mark.
EFE reported that in Miramar residential areas had partially flooded streets , which made for heavy traffic.
However, INSMET indicated this morning that "there has been a slight tendency to decrease the intensity of rainfall over the northern portion of the province of Havana."
According to meteorologists, rains are associated with the recoil of a cold front that has remained with little movement on the western provinces of the island.
Unexpected weather conditions are also linked to a higher trough in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, which is considered the cause of atmospheric instability with significant and continuous rains from Artemisa to Ciego de Avila.
The weather phenomenon coincides with the end of the 2013 hurricane season, which this year only affected the island with storms " Andrea" and " Chantal " in June and July, respectively.
The information states that among incidents reported until Friday evening was a building located central Havana, which included two households.
Fatalities were identified as 54 year old, Fidel Vega Recios and Pastora Góngora Mendoza, 60.
The note argues that the construction of several plants, which had issues with their general structure, yesterday suffered a collapse--the first at dawn, and the next at noon, according to residents of Campanario.
Numerous buildings of Havana - a city whose housing stock is 70% in fair or poor condition - are declared uninhabitable by the authorities, but tenants are reluctant to abandon them because the alternative is usually being sent to shelters and worse conditions.
RAINS CONTINUED ON SATURDAY
Almost 3 inches of rain have fallen in parts of western and central Cuba, including the city of Havana, since the time began to lash the western and central regions of the island in the early hours of Friday.
According to the island’s forecast center of the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET), continued heavy rainfall continued Saturday morning in the north coast of the province of Artemisa. In the town of Bahía Honda rain did in fact reach the 3 inch mark.
EFE reported that in Miramar residential areas had partially flooded streets , which made for heavy traffic.
However, INSMET indicated this morning that "there has been a slight tendency to decrease the intensity of rainfall over the northern portion of the province of Havana."
According to meteorologists, rains are associated with the recoil of a cold front that has remained with little movement on the western provinces of the island.
Unexpected weather conditions are also linked to a higher trough in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, which is considered the cause of atmospheric instability with significant and continuous rains from Artemisa to Ciego de Avila.
The weather phenomenon coincides with the end of the 2013 hurricane season, which this year only affected the island with storms " Andrea" and " Chantal " in June and July, respectively.