New Delhi [India], January 10 (ANI): India on Friday despatched humanitarian help to Cuba following the devastation attributable to Hurricane Rafael.
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated {that a} consignment of important medicines, together with antibiotics, and painkillers has been dispatched to help the folks of Cuba of their restoration efforts.
Sharing a submit on X, the MEA spokesperson wrote, “Vishwabandhu Bharat: India sends Humanitarian Help for the folks of Cuba.””Within the aftermath of Hurricane Rafael, a consignment within the type of Important Medicines comprising Antibiotics, Anti-pyretics, ache killers, ORS, muscle relaxants has departed for Cuba at the moment,” the submit added.
Notably, Hurricane Rafael made landfall within the western Cuban province of Artemisa as a Class 3 storm on the afternoon of November 6, 2024. The hurricane approached the island from the south, having skirted previous Jamaica on November 5 as a tropical storm, in line with NASA Earth Observatory.
Approaching Cuba, it traversed heat waters and encountered mild to average vertical wind shear–environmental situations that helped the storm to strengthen into a serious hurricane.
Rafael’s sustained wind speeds peaked at 185 kilometres per hour previous to landfall, the Nationwide Hurricane Middle (NHC) had reported. It weakened barely upon encountering land, downgrading to a Class 2 storm because it moved throughout Cuba and tracked northwest into the Gulf of Mexico.
Citing information experiences, the NASA Earth Observatory stated that the Cuban authorities introduced the hurricane had knocked out energy throughout all the island earlier than landfall. A number of airports had suspended flights. Western Cuba was anticipated to obtain 100 to 200 millimetres of rainfall from the storm system, in line with the NHC, with a number of inches additionally forecast for the Cayman Islands and Florida Keys. The NHC had additionally warned of sturdy storm surge that might increase water as a lot as 4 metres above regular ranges alongside Cuba’s southern coast. (ANI)
