Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Camagüey, Sep 29.- The radar network that Cuba possesses, composed of eight such entities, is an indispensable tool in tracking hurricanes and other severe events that affect or pass near the national territory.
Deployed throughout the country, these installations operate 24 hours a day, continuously, and a group of specialists works on issuing early warnings and bulletins about the formation and development of hurricanes, which are very useful data for prevention and decision-making in each region.
Experts from the National Radars Center, headquartered in this city, provide daily information about these phenomena, as well as about hurricanes, their probable trajectory, and impact anywhere in the archipelago.
At the same time, meteorologists issue alerts for intense rainfall and severe local storms as extreme phenomena, which are also shared through their platforms on the social networks Facebook, X, and Telegram.
Rafael Valdés Alberto, lead specialist of the Radar Meteorology Group of the institution, explained to the Cuban News Agency that in the case of Camagüey’s radar, the first to be modernized and automated in 1997, it is vital for monitoring the provinces of Ciego de Ávila, Las Tunas, and the Camagüey region.
Through this radar, weather monitoring is now performed every 10 minutes, whereas before it was done every three hours (with the analog system), hence the better coverage and resolution of different phenomena.
During the cyclone season, from June 1 to November 30, they are especially relevant because with these means and continuously, it is possible to locate in real time the place where the hurricane will enter the country and its trajectory and the time it will take to cross one of its coasts. (Source: ACN)
