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Weakening Hurricane Paula Dumps Heavy Rain on Cuba

   VOA News 14 October 2010
   A  couple  walks  along  a  highway  as Hurricane Paula approaches the
   island in San Cristobal, Cuba, 13 Oct 2010

Photo: AP

   A  couple  walks  along  a  highway  as Hurricane Paula approaches the
   island in San Cristobal, Cuba, 13 Oct 2010

   A  weakening  Hurricane Paula dumped heavy rain along Cuba's northwest
   coast early Thursday, and U.S. forecasters said it would diminish to a
   tropical storm during the day.
   The  storm, with maximum sustained winds near 120 kilometers per hour,
   moved  slowly  at seven kilometers per hour over Cuba's tobacco fields
   as  it headed northeast.  Forecasters said it would move later in the
   day over Cuba's north coast.
   At  last report (1200 UTC), the U.S. [1]National Hurricane Center said
   Paula was centered 215 kilometers west of Havana.
   Heavy  rain  could fall in parts of Cuba, with up to 25 centimeters in
   the western and central regions.
   Forecasters  posted  a  tropical  storm watch for parts of the Florida
   Keys,  a  chain  of  islands  in  southern Florida in the southeastern
   United States.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

References

   1. http://www.noaa.gov/

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