Tropical Storm Elsa made landfall in Western Cuba Monday afternoon as it barreled towards Florida.Heavy rain from the storm will strike Cuba and the Cayman Islands through Monday night, which the National Hurricane Center warned could trigger significant mudslides in Cuba.
This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken Monday, July 5, 2021, at 4:50 p.m. EDT, and supplied by NOAA, reveals Tropical Storm Elsa over western Cuba with strong rain and winds.
(NOAA by means of AP)Two deaths were reported in the Dominican Republic and one in St. Lucia from the storm, which had been a Category 1 hurricane, and Cuba had evacuated 180,000 individuals by Sunday, The Associated Press reported. However, the worst of the hurricane missed out on Havana and it was primarily impacting rural locations with continual winds of 50 miles per hour. The storm is expected to damage Central and Western Cuba overnight before it continues to parts of the Florida Keys and Floridas Gulf Coast Tuesday and Wednesday. SOUTH FLORIDA BRACING FOR TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS AS ELSA NEARSThe National Weather Service (NWS) issued a Tropical Storm Warning up to the Ochlockonee River and a Storm Surge Warming from Bonita Beach to the Aucilla River. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis cautioned in a tweet on Sunday that “All Floridians need to get ready for the possibility of heavy rain, flooding and prospective power outages.””Now is the time to restock your products and examine your cyclone strategy,” he added.NWS meteorologists have predicted Elsa will turn east over Northern Florida, and they advised parts of the coast along Georgia and the Carolinas might also deal with hurricane conditions on Wednesday and Thursday.