Hurricane Oscar brought wind and rain to eastern Cuba on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Oscar was located at latitude 20.2\u00b0N and longitude 74.5\u00b0W which put the center about 45 miles (75 km) east of Guantanamo, Cuba.\u00a0 Oscar was moving toward the west-southwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Warnings are in effect for the North Coast of Cuban province of Holguin and the North Coast of Cuban province of Guantanamo to Punta Maisi. A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the North Coast of Cuban province of Las Tunas.<\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the Southeastern Bahamas.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the South Coast of Cuban province of Guantanamo and the North Coast of Cuban province of Las Tunas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the North Coast of Cuban province of Camaguey.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch is also in effect for the Central Bahamas.<\/span><\/p>\n The center of Hurricane Oscar made landfall on the coast of eastern Cuba east of Guantanamo on Sunday evening.\u00a0 A very small eye with a diameter of 4 miles (6 km) was at the center of Oscar\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Short bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Hurricane Oscar.<\/p>\n The circulation around Hurricane Oscar was very small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 15 miles (25 km) on the northern side of Oscar\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Hurricane Oscar.<\/p>\n Hurricane Oscar will move around the southern side of a high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Oscar toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Oscar will move across eastern Cuba on Sunday night and on Monday.<\/p>\n Hurricane Oscar will weaken to a tropical storm as it moves inland over eastern Cuba.\u00a0 Even though Oscar will weaken, it will still bring strong winds and heavy rain to eastern Cuba.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurricane Oscar brought wind and rain to eastern Cuba on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Oscar was located at latitude 20.2\u00b0N and longitude 74.5\u00b0W which put the center about 45 miles (75 km) east of Guantanamo, Cuba.\u00a0 Oscar was moving toward the west-southwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[2683,28,2337,145,2167,2590,1348,2589,1346,3784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21405,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions\/21405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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