Hurricane Oscar, Tropical Storm Nadine threaten Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico

Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Two new tropical storms were named Saturday and one quickly developed into a hurricane as the deadly 2024 storm season continued to churn across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

Oscar was named as a tropical storm early Saturday and by mid-afternoon was upgraded to a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. It was moving westerly at 12 mph while positioned 160 miles east-southeast of the southeastern Bahamas.

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