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Storm Paloma strengthens into hurricane: US monitor
AFP - Friday, November 7
MIAMI (AFP) - - Tropical Storm Paloma strengthened into a hurricane Thursday as it barreled northward across the Caribbean towards Cuba, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
The Miami-based monitor reported that the storm, which formed early Thursday east of the Nicaragua-Honduras border, was packing sustained winds near 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour), with higher gusts.
"At 7:00 pm (0000 GMT Friday) the center of Hurricane Paloma was located... about 165 miles (270 kilometers) south of Grand Cayman and about 280 miles (450 kilometers) west-southwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica," the NHC said in a statement.
"Paloma continues to rapidly organize and additional strengthening is likely," it said, adding that the storm was forecast to intensify Friday from a category one to a category two hurricane on the 1-5 Saffir-Simpson scale.
The storm -- coming at the tail end of the Caribbean hurricane season, which stretches from June 1 to November 30 -- was expected to hit the Cayman Islands late Friday and could produce rainfall accumulations of up to eight inches (20 centimeters) across the Caymans, with isolated pockets seeing up to 12 inches (30 centimeters).
Paloma is forecast to then track north-northeast and strike Cuba's south-central coast by Sunday, the NHC said.
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This NOAA satellite handout image shows Tropical Storm Paloma located over the Caribbean Sea. Tropical Storm Paloma strengthened into a hurricane Thursday as it barreled northward across the Caribbean towards Cuba, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
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