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Hurricane Paloma

2008-11-09, 07.00 local time – THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA HAS DISCONTINUED ALL HURRICANE WARNINGS AND WATCHES FOR CUBA.

2008-11-09, 06.00 local time - Paloma is weakening rapidly as it moves across Cuba and has been downgraded to tropical storm and it will continue to weaken as it departs from Cuba today. Meanwhile, a storm will move through the interior West before bringing messy weather to the Plains early in the week. Paloma entered Cuba as Category Four hurricane. However, very quickly it weakened to a Category 1 hurricane thanks to mountainous terrain. When the storm made a landfall in Santa Cruz del Sur, Camaguey, it tied the record for second strongest Atlantic Hurricane in November. The strongest was Hurricane Lenny in 1999.

Today also marks the anniversary for a devastating hurricane with wind gusts of 200 that plowed into Cuba in 1932. The monstrous storm killed nearly 3,000 people.

A couple more inches of rain will be possible over eastern Cuba as Paloma departs and moves northeast toward the Bahamas. Life-threatening flash floods and mud slides could still impact Cuba today with the additional rainfall. Nuevitas, Cuba, has received 3.57 inches of rain into early this morning from the dangerous hurricane, and even higher amounts fell in the higher elevations. Destructive winds have also been blasting Cuba.

Paloma will be steered to the northeast over cooler water north of Cuba as wind shear strengthens. Both of these factors will lead to more weakening. By Monday morning, the system is expected to weaken to tropical storm strength about half way between Cuba and the central Bahamas.

2008-11-09, 04.00 local time - Extremely dangerous hurricane Paloma struck the eastern south shore of Cuba Saturday evening. It made landfall as a Category 4 storm near Santa Cruz del Sur but has rapidly weakened while crossing the mountainous terrain of Cuba. At 1:00 a.m. local time Sunday, Paloma was already downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph. It will weaken further as it moves to the northeast and departs Cuba through Sunday morning. Flooding rain and strong winds will still lash eastern Cuba as it moves away.

2008-11-08 - Hurricane Paloma has strengthened to a Category Four storm before it lashed Cayman Islands where it has caused extensive flooding. Paloma is expected to weaken before it hits Cuba later today. The government of Cuba has issued a hurricane warning for the provinces of Granma and Holguin; it has, however, discontinued the warning for the province of Sancti Spiritus. A hurricane warning is still in effect in following Cuban provinces: Ciego de Avila, Camaguey, Las Tunas as well as the above mentioned Granma and Holguin. In the light of forthcoming hurricane, as well the previous ones (Gustav and Ike), Fidel Castro has opined that Cuban people should learn from every such event about the consequences of climate change and the ecologic unbalance. Hurricane Paloma will be third hurricane and fourth storm that has hit Cuba this year.

2008-11-07 – Hurricane Paloma has gathered strength overnight and come close to becoming category two storm. At 09.00 GMT its winds speed was 130km/hour and it was located some 700km south from central Cuban coast where it is expected to hit first early hours on Sunday, 9th November, after passing Cayman Islands. A hurricane watch has been issued for central and southern Cuban provinces (Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Camaguey, Las Tunas and Granma). A hurricane watch means that overall hurricane conditions are expected in the area within next 36 hours. The Cuban Civil Defense authorities has given assurance that every province were guaranteeing the protection of public and economic resources. Paloma will be fourth hurricane to hit Cuba this season, following Gustav and Ike which caused extensive damage and destruction of crops and housing.