Havana-(Prensa Latina) The main impact of the current El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event will be felt in Cuba during the coming months, forecasters warned today in Granma newspaper.

Experts from the Institute of Meteorology stated the importance for the country to be prepared to mitigate ENSO's effects, which should maintain its strong range in the equatorial Pacific Ocean until February, to later gradually decline.

According to scholars, the first three quarters of the year, and perhaps until April, have a high probability of being rainy and even stormy, term that indicates the possibility of occurrence of severe weather outbreaks associated with the advancing lines of thunderstorms linked to the passage of frontal systems.

Dr. Ramon Perez Suarez, a specialist of the Climate Center of the Institute of Meteorology, said the development of ENSO's phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific Ocean has generated significant impacts in several regions of the planet.

Suarez Perez mentioned, among other aspects, heavy rains and floods of great consideration in South American countries, and severe droughts in Indonesia, southern Africa, and other geographical areas.

In case of Cuba, he stressed that the presence of that complex process of ocean-atmosphere interaction contributed that 2015 has been the warmest year since 1951 (of the 15 warmest years in the island, 10 corresponded to ENSO of different intensities).