The NBC2 First Alert Hurricane Tracking Team is closely monitoring the movement of Hurricane Oscar over the Atlantic Ocean.
Oscar has made another landfall, most recently in eastern Cuba at 5:50 p.m. Sunday.
With the most recent advisory at 11 p.m., Oscar has weakened to a Tropical Storm and is moving west-southwest at 6 mph with maximum sustained winds now at 70 mph.
Oscar will bring heavy rainfall and the threat of dangerous storm surge to parts of the Bahamas and eastern Cuba through Wednesday.
Despite Oscar's relatively close proximity to Florida, it's important to stress that the storm is forecast to turn north across the Bahamas early next week and not be a direct threat to the peninsula.
Florida is being spared any direct impacts from Oscar thanks in part to a stalled front southeast of our state and a strong ridge of high pressure across the eastern half of the United States.
The image below shows a collection of tropical weather-specific forecast models. Each line depicts where a particular model depicts the center of the storm to move over time.
The forcing the storm to make a sharp turn is very noticeable as no data shows the possibility of the system moving toward the state.
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