WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Oscar has been downgraded to Tropical Storm Oscar after making landfall on the northern coast of eastern Cuba.
Heavy rainfall from Oscar is likely to cause significant flash flooding and mudslides across portions of Cuba. Tropical storm warnings and watches extend farther west.
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Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph and Oscar is moving to the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Tropical storm watches and warnings are in effect for the north coast of Cuba and across the Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas.
This system does not pose a threat to South Florida as a trough digging south will quickly turn the system northeast by Monday into a weakness in the ridge of high pressure.
Elsewhere, the tropics are quiet in the remainder of the Atlantic Basin. The Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov. 30.
