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    Tropical Storm Oscar dumped heavy rain on eastern Cuba on Monday, a day after making landfall on the island as a Category 1 hurricane, and is now targeting the Bahamas, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.

    Oscar’s center is expected to move near the southeastern and central Bahamas on Tuesday and then dissipate from the Bahamas on Tuesday evening and Wednesday, the NHC said in an advisory Tuesday morning. The storm has maximum sustained winds of almost 40 km per hour with higher gusts.

    Rain amounts of 3 to 5 inches, with isolated amounts of about 8 inches, are expected through Tuesday in the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, the NHC said, which could cause localized flash flooding.

    “While little change in strength is forecast over the next two days, Oscar is expected to reach a post-tropical low tonight and then be absorbed by another low-pressure area on Thursday,” NHC forecasters said Tuesday.

    Powerful Oscar waves could hit East Coast beaches in the U.S. in the coming days, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne, Florida.

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    Oscar was the 10th hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which doesn’t officially end until November 30. It’s only the 10th season with so many hurricanes, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. A normal year has seven hurricanes. Hurricane records go back to 1851.

    In total, there have been fifteen named storms in the Atlantic Basin so far in 2024. According to AccuWeather, this includes four major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale).

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    Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X @GabeHauari or email him at [email protected].

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