A new automatic weather station (EMA in Spanish) records the behavior of the meteorological variables in the municipality of Puerto Padre, in the northern zone of Las Tunas, which was assembled last August.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Alexey Moreno Borges, technical deputy director of the provincial Meteorological Center, informed that the new installation allows knowing the minimum, average, and maximum temperatures of each day, the direction and strength of the wind, sunshine, rainfall, and evaporation.
He explained that in 2015 a group of EMAs were installed in the country and in the province there were two, which stopped working about four years ago because their devices -susceptible to lightning- were affected.
“Now, thanks to the efforts of the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET in Spanish), modern technology has been assigned to Puerto Padre and it is expected that -in the future- another will be in the main municipality. Thanks to the efforts and results of international collaboration, another one will be available in Guayabal.”
“In this way, and thanks to the Mi Costa project (Resilience to climate change in the coastal zone of Cuba through ecosystem-based adaptation), the southern community of the municipality of Amancio will be able to have reliable data on weather conditions.”
Moreno Borges added that INSMET is promoting the installation of EMAs in the same places where the conventional entities are located to homologate the data with a wider coverage of the different variables, thus the results are more accurate.
“All of this will benefit municipal and provincial governments because different models will be evaluated and meteorological phenomena can be diagnosed and evaluated in a given area, to avoid damage to the population, the economy and the environment.”
