Hurricane Paloma weakens to Category 2 over Cuba
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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