The eye of the hurricane "Ike" moves today by the southeastern Bahamas and could begin tonight to unload all its fury with category 4 on Cuba, reported the National Hurricane Center (CNH) U.S..
The "extremely dangerous" cyclone "Ike" has maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometres per hour and is expected to continue as hurricane category increased while approaching Cuba, "CNH reported in its bulletin of 12.00 GMT today.
According to the planned trajectory by CNH, "Ike" will move this morning in the southeastern Bahamas and your eye will be "near or over eastern Cuba tonight and on the central island tomorrow, Monday."
Recorrido Cuba from east to west and, after losing some intensity to pass through its territory, again strengthened in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a computer model of CNH.
The cays further south Florida will feel the effects of heavy rains and winds, but probably not suffer the blow of the cyclone, according to the trajectory forecast by experts.
The Government of Cuba has extended the hurricane warning (step system in 24 hours) for the provinces of Camaguey and Ciego de Avila, including Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Las Tunas and Granma. And is current surveillance hurricane (step system in 36 hours) for the provinces of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritu.
There is also monitoring hurricane for Andros Island in the Bahamas.
It has enabled monitoring of tropical storm (step system in 36 hours) for the Cayman Islands.
Stay active hurricane surveillance for the islands of Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas, including Crooked Island, The Inagua, Mayaguana and the Ragged Islands. And for the central Bahamas.
A tropical storm warning for the north coast of Dominican Republic, from the Old French out west to the northern border with Haiti, and another in the north of this country, from the northern border with the Dominican Republic until Gonaives (Haiti) .
The eye of the hurricane was located at 12.00 GMT near latitude 21.0 degrees north and longitude 72.8 degrees west, just east of Great Inagua island.
It moves in a southerly direction about 24 miles per hour and is expected to continue today trajectory west-southwest on Monday to turn toward the west-northwest.
The experts alerted the people of the Bahamas, Cuba and southern Florida on extreme danger of this category four hurricane on the scale of intensity Saffir-Simpson, a maximum of five.
The current trend is away something from southern Florida, but will affect the keys of this state.
The order to evacuate tourists from the cays began on Saturday, after declaring the Florida governor, Charlie Crist, the state of emergency.
"We must be prepared and be followed by radio and television developments," the governor said at a press conference.
Meanwhile, the storm "Hanna", which made landfall on Saturday on the beaches of the boundary between the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, lost its tropical characteristics as it moves toward the northeast, the region of New England, the far northeastern United States.
Advancing rapidly, with a travel speed of 57 kilometers per hour with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour.
In the current hurricane season in Atlanta (June 1 to November 30) have been formed ten storms and five hurricanes.
