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Here's a small pic with an idea of the terrain.....
http://www.posolstvo-cuba.ru/cuba/cuba- ... ef-big.jpg
http://www.posolstvo-cuba.ru/cuba/cuba- ... ef-big.jpg
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In an earlier post, Windspeed laid out the topography and effects pretty well:
The province of Granma contains the penninsula that juts out west from Eastern Cuba. The penninsula's dominant geographic feature is the Sierra Maestra mountain range that stretches west from Santiago De Cuba to the tip of the penninsula. At an altitude of 6,469 feet (1,972 meters), Pico Turquino is the highest peak in the Sierra Maestra, and also the heighest point of elevation in Cuba.
If Hurricane Dennis's center moves directly over the province of Granma and the Sierra Maestra, its circulation will be altered and weakening will occur. However, if the circulation slips just past the western tip of the penninsula, inflow probably will not be altered all that much because the Sierra Maesra Range actually bends back from west to a southwest direction and may actually direct inflow towards the center. Also, steering flow of the mid-layer ridge won't be affected very much, since the range itself is not very wide and also since the range itself runs most East to West. ESE to SE flow in the steering layer will likely continue driving Dennis on a WNW to NW path close to the Cuban coastline, putting Central and Western Cuba under threat for direct landfall.
However, due to how far WSW the penninsula of the Granma Province juts from the Cuban mainland, it is very possible that location may experience a direct hit. The community of Pilon, which is on the southwestern coastline of the penninsula, looks to be a threatened by the northeastern eyewall as Dennis passes just to its southwest.
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