Hurricane Oscar will move across Great Inagua Island Sunday morning, then make another landfall along the northeastern coast of Cuba on Sunday afternoon or evening.
Oscar is taking aim at Cuba after the small but mighty storm underwent rapid intensification over the weekend and made landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 1 hurricane early Sunday morning.Hurricane Oscar rapidly intensified from a tropical storm into an 85-mph hurricane on Saturday, causing islands in its potential path to issue watches and warnings ahead of the storm’s arrival.
A Hurricane Hunter aircraft also determined the cyclone's eye was just more than 3 miles wide, making it one of the smallest features since Hurricane Wilma in 2005.Due to Oscar's small size, fluctuations in intensity will be common, as the cyclone can take advantage of pockets of dry air and shear.Oscar became the second named storm to get a name on Saturday, joining Tropical Storm Nadine, which was christened early Saturday morning near Belize.
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