So far, the current September is asserting its status as the most active month of the hurricane season, recording the formation of tropical storms Florence and Gordon on the first and third respectively.

Florence reached the status of an intense Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, in the waters of the central Atlantic Ocean, while Gordon penetrated into North American territory during the night of that same day, along the southern coast of the state of

Mississippi.

As indicated by the models, an active tropical wave located in the eastern Atlantic, several hundred kilometers west of the Cape Verde Islands, could also have cyclonic development during the course of the week as it moves west.

Along with the condition of recording the highest frequency of tropical cyclone formation in the tropical Atlantic basin, which also includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, for Cuba the month of September is the second most dangerous of the cyclone season as referred to the scourge of those natural phenomena, surpassed only by October.

The main area of emergence of the cyclone organisms of the ninth month of the calendar is located in Atlantic waters, between the coasts of Africa and the Arch of the Lesser Antilles. They usually describe trajectories near the west and west-west for several days, similar to those of August, hence some penetrate into the eastern Caribbean Sea, and others do so over and near the northern group of the Lesser Antilles themselves, in the direction of The Bahamas.

Already in the final days of September, some may originate in the area of the western Caribbean Sea. Among the most notable cyclonic organisms that affected the country in this month highlights the Irma, Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, those of September 4, 1888, the one in 1919, and the very strong meteor that literally ravaged all the north of the current provinces of Villa Clara, Matanzas and Havana, on September 1st, 1933