Hurricane Oscar makes landfall on Great Inagua Island with 80 mph winds

Oscar is maintaining its Category 1 strength and has maximum sustained winds of around 80 mph.

Hurricane Oscar is forecast to impact Cuba on Sunday afternoon.

Oscar is projected to slowly turn to the north and northeast over Monday and Tuesday.

The system should be moving back out to the Atlantic Ocean by Wednesday morning.

Thankfully, it is not forecast to impact Florida.

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Original report:

Hurricane Oscar formed Saturday morning and was quickly upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane.

The 5 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center has Oscar with winds of 85 mph.

By 11 p.m., maximum sustained winds remained at that speed.

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Hurricane conditions are expected to continue into Sunday across the Turks and Caicos and the Southeastern Bahamas, where Hurricane Warnings are in effect.

Oscar is expected to move westward toward Cuba then sharply turn northeastward on Monday.

The system is expected to weaken to a tropical storm early next week and will likely be absorbed into a trough of low pressure by Wednesday.

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Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Nadine developed early Saturday morning in the northwestern Caribbean and quickly made landfall by early afternoon along the coast of Belize.

Nadine will continue to move inland into Guatemala and southern Mexico and is expected to dissipate on Sunday.

Neither Oscar nor Nadine are threats to Florida.

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