As per the National Hurricane Center’s 8 am Monday update, Tropical Storm Oscar is 5 miles west of Guantanamo Cuba and 70 miles west of the Eastern Tip of Cuba, with maximum sustained wind of 45 mph. It’s moving at 2 mph to the west.

The surprise hurricane that popped up and lashed Cuba over the weekend lost some steam Monday, and is forecast to turn and head toward the Bahamas and away from Florida by Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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.