During the night hours of this Friday, the area of ​​low pressure located to the east of the northern group of the arc of the Lesser Antilles showed a better organization in its areas of rains and electrical storms.

A reconnaissance plane found a closed circulation with maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, which makes it Tropical Storm Earl, the fifth tropical organism of the current cyclone season.

It has a central pressure of 1005 hectoPascal.

At eleven o'clock at night, Earl had its central region located at 18.4 degrees North latitude and 60.3 degrees West longitude, a position that places it about 200 kilometers northeast of the island of Antigua and Barbudas, in the north of the Lesser Antilles. .

It is moving west northwest at 22 kilometers per hour.

In the next 12 to 24 hours, this system will maintain a similar course, although its speed will decrease.

You can gain a little more organization and intensity as you move closer to the north of the Leeward Islands, as well as north of Puerto Rico.

This system does not represent a danger for Cuba.

The next Tropical Cyclone Warning about this organism will be issued at six in the afternoon on Saturday morning.

(With information from Ismet)