Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 storm
Hurricane Oscar made landfall Sunday evening on the northern coast of east Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The hurricane made landfall at 5:50 p.m. ET in the Cuban province of Guantanamo, near the city of Baracoa, the hurricane center said.
The storm has weakened, and as of the center’s 8 p.m. update, it had winds of 75 mph with higher gusts. At landfall, Oscar was packing maximum sustained winds near 80 mph.
The storm was “bringing hurricane conditions, heavy rainfall,…