It was a busy Saturday in the tropics, with two new storms developing and one becoming a hurricane.
Hurricane Oscar formed Saturday morning and was quickly upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane.
The National Hurricane Center’s 5 p.m. advisory has Oscar with winds of 85 mph.
By 11 p.m., maximum sustained winds remained at that speed.
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Hurricane conditions are expected to persist through Sunday in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas, where hurricane warnings are in effect.
Oscar is expected to move west toward Cuba and then turn sharply northeastward on Monday.
The system is expected to weaken to a tropical storm early next week and will likely become absorbed into a trough of low pressure on Wednesday.
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Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Nadine developed early Saturday morning in the northwestern Caribbean and quickly made landfall along the coast of Belize by early afternoon.
Nadine will continue to move inland, into Guatemala and southern Mexico, and is expected to disappear on Sunday.
Neither Oscar nor Nadine pose a threat to Florida.
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