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Hurricane Paloma weakens to Category 2 over Cuba

Sun Nov 9, 2008 11:23am IST
 
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Paloma weakened to a Category 2 storm over Cuba on Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Paloma had strengthened to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane with 140 mile per hour (225 km per hour) winds as it passed through the Cayman Islands but came ashore in southeastern Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale before weakening.

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