Hurricane Watch issued for Eastern Cuba as Ike gets closer


HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 6 (acn) Cuba’s National Defense Staff declared the Alert stage (watch), today at four p.m., for the eastern provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguin, Las Tunas and Camaguey in the face of the possible track of hurricane Ike.

Cuban News Agency

The Central territories of Ciego de Avila, Villa Clara, Sancti Spiritus, Cienfuegos and Matanzas are currently in the Informative stage, since hurricane Ike may affect the whole country.
Ike is a dangerous hurricane category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale currently approaching the northern coast of eastern Cuba. The storm maintains 215-km per hour winds with higher gusts. Over the next 12 to 24 hours Ike will continue to move west-southwest at some 24 km per hour.

 http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/0907ike1.htm



See also:

 http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/index.html

 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html

 http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/

 http://www.trabajadores.cu/ingles

 http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu

 http://www.plenglish.com