Tropical Storm Sam becomes the seventh hurricane of the current season

The Forecasting Center of the Cuban Meteorological Institute reported at dawn on this September 24th that in the early morning hours the tormenta tropical Sam gained in organization and intensity and became the seventh hurricane the current cyclone season, with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour and higher gusts that place it in category one of the Saffir-Simpson scale out of a maximum of five.

The statement specified that "its central pressure has dropped to 993 hectoPascal and it is moving towards the west at 24 kilometers per hour" and that at five in the morning "the region was estimated at 11.5 degrees North latitude and 42.2 degrees West longitude, about 2,365 kilometers east-southeast of the northern group of the Lesser Antilles arc and about 1,900 kilometers east of Barbados, the easternmost island of this group."

Likewise, INSMET predicted that in the next 12 to 24 hours said organism "will maintain a course between the west and the west-northwest, slightly decreasing its translational speed and rapidly gaining in intensity, potentially becoming a high-intensity hurricane tomorrow, Saturday." ".

However, the official note warned that "it does not pose a danger to Cuba."

Days ago, the Cuban meteorologist José Rubiera explained that the last three cyclonic seasons in the northern hemisphere have been very active, since at the beginning of autumn there have been 17 named tropical cyclones.

In the current one, there are only four names left to use (Sam, Teresa, Victor and Wanda) before the list of names approved by the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations System for 2021 runs out. Then, another list of names would be proposed .