{"id":116591,"date":"2024-10-21T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116591"},"modified":"2024-10-21T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T23:07:00","slug":"hurricane-oscar-makes-landfall-in-cuba-as-a-category-1-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116591","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Hurricane Oscar made landfall Sunday evening on the northern coast of east Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The hurricane made landfall at 5:50 p.m. ET in the Cuban province of Guantanamo, near the city of Baracoa, the hurricane center said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the time of landfall, Oscar was packing maximum sustained winds near 80 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oscar, which the National Hurricane Center has characterized as &#8220;compact but powerful,&#8221; formed off the coast of the Bahamas Saturday, prompting a hurricane warning for the north coast of Cuba&#8217;s Holguin and Guantanamo provinces, all the way to the easternmost tip of the island, Punta de Maisi.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Category 1 storm was moving west-southwest at 7 mph, according to the hurricane center update. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oscar is expected to move across eastern Cuba on Sunday night into Monday, and accelerate northeastward across the central Bahamas Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Weakening is expected after landfall, but Oscar could still be a tropical storm when it moves north of Cuba late Monday and moves across the central Bahamas on Tuesday,&#8221; the center said earlier Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cuba, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/cuba-power-outage-rcna176227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electrical grid has collapsed twice in 24 hours<\/a>, is bracing for impact with storm warnings and watches. In addition to the hurricane warnings, the north coast of the Cuban province of Las Tunas was under both a hurricane watch and tropical storm warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A tropical storm warning was in effect for the southeastern Bahamas as well as the south coast of Guantanamo, and a tropical storm watch was in effect for the north coast of the province of Camaguey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Eastern Cuba is expected to be hit with hurricane conditions and heavy rainfall Sunday night, the hurricane center said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rainfall in eastern Cuba is expected to reach 5 to 10 inches with up to 15 inches of rainfall in some places, the center said. The southeastern Bahamas can get anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of rain, and Turks and Caicos may get 2 to 4 inches of rain through Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Around 1 to 3 feet of storm surge can also be expected along Cuba&#8217;s north shore, which will be accompanied by &#8220;large and destructive waves&#8221; near the coast. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/hurricanes\/hurricane-oscar-forms-bahamas-rcna176239\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Oscar made landfall Sunday evening on the northern coast of east Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center. 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