The Cuban Institute of Meteorology's Forecast Center (INSMET) has announced that tropical storm Oscar is set to leave Cuban territory, heading out to

Oscar, which the National Hurricane Center characterized as "very small," is the 15th named storm of the hurricane season.

NHC expects Oscar to weaken after making landfall on the northeastern coast of Cuba, but it could still be a tropical storm when it moves north of Cuba late Monday and across the central Bahamas on Tuesday.

The Cuban Meteorology Institute's Forecast Center has issued a warning this Sunday regarding Hurricane Oscar's impending landfall along the island's

Tropical Storm Oscar is chugging toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people

We haven’t had electricity for three nights,” said one Cuban protestor, amid widespread blackouts. Authorities said the outage stemmed from increased demand but residents say this is just the latest issue in a series of problems with electricity.

Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid workers struggled to reach areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Oscar.

Tropical Storm Oscar is forecast to produce life-threatening flash flooding in portions of eastern Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center.