Tropical Storm Oscar dumped heavy rain across eastern Cuba on Monday after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage. Its maximum sustained winds blew at 40 mph (65 kph) on Monday as Oscar moved north-northwest at 7 mph (11 kph).

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of what is now Tropical Storm Oscar was located about 5 miles east of Guantanamo, Cuba and 60 miles west of the eastern trip of the island nation moving west at 2 mph with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out up to 45 miles from the center.

Tropical Storm Oscar is now on a track that will avoid the state of Florida according to the latest NHC update.

Cubans in the eastern provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo braced for a direct hit by Hurricane Oscar on Sunday afternoon. As the Category 1 hurricane made landfall near Baracoa, a coastal in city in Guantánamo province, around 5:50 p.m., most of the country still had no power.

Tropical Storm Oscar is moving across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage.

Tropical Storm Oscar is forecast to produce life-threatening flash flooding in portions of eastern Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm Oscar was moving across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage

Cuba is suspending nonessential activities and school for the next three days as its fends off the twin threats of a grinding national blackout and Hurricane Oscar.