Typhoon Oscar made landfall Sunday night time at the northern coast of east Cuba, in step with the Nationwide Typhoon Middle. The storm made landfall at 5:50 p.m. ET within the Cuban province of Guantanamo, close to town of Baracoa, the storm middle stated. On the time of landfall, Oscar was once packing most sustained winds close to 80 mph.Oscar, which the Nationwide Typhoon Middle has characterised as “compact however robust,” shaped off the coast of the Bahamas Saturday, prompting a storm caution for the north coast of Cuba’s Holguin and Guantanamo provinces, the entire solution to the easternmost tip of the island, Punta de Maisi. The Class 1 hurricane was once transferring west-southwest at 7 mph, in step with the storm middle replace. Oscar is anticipated to transport throughout japanese Cuba on Sunday night time into Monday, and boost up northeastward around the central Bahamas Tuesday.”Weakening is anticipated after landfall, however Oscar may nonetheless be a tropical hurricane when it strikes north of Cuba overdue Monday and strikes around the central Bahamas on Tuesday,” the middle stated previous Sunday.Cuba, the place {the electrical} grid has collapsed two times in 24 hours, is bracing for affect with hurricane warnings and watches. Along with the storm warnings, the north coast of the Cuban province of Las Tunas was once below each a storm watch and tropical hurricane caution.A tropical hurricane caution was once in impact for the southeastern Bahamas in addition to the south coast of Guantanamo, and a tropical hurricane watch was once in impact for the north coast of the province of Camaguey.Japanese Cuba is anticipated to be hit with storm prerequisites and heavy rainfall Sunday night time, the storm middle stated. Rainfall in japanese Cuba is anticipated to succeed in 5 to ten inches with as much as 15 inches of rainfall in some puts, the middle stated. The southeastern Bahamas can get any place from 3 to eight inches of rain, and Turks and Caicos would possibly get 2 to 4 inches of rain via Wednesday morning. Round 1 to a few toes of hurricane surge can be anticipated alongside Cuba’s north shore, which shall be accompanied via “massive and damaging waves” close to the coast.
