Hurricane Paloma on November 7 Hurricane Paloma , which the U.S. National Hurricane Center yesterday labeled as "extremely dangerous", has recently hit Cuba. In preparation of this, at 1500 UTC yesterday, the Cuban provinces of Granma and Holguin were issued with a Hurricane warning by the country's government. Due to updated forecasts, it has also removed the waning for the province of Sancti Spiritus. 220,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas in the Camaguey province, while 170,000 were evacuated from the province of Las Tunas . Hurricane Paloma was the seventeenth tropical depression of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season . Paloma developed out of a strong tropical disturbance off the northern coast of Honduras on November 5. The disturbance had slowly developed into a tropical depression. The depression then became a tropical storm then a hurricane.
Hurricane Paloma on November 7 , which the yesterday labeled as "extremely dangerous", has recently hit Cuba. In preparation of this, at 1500 yesterday, the Cuban provinces of and were issued with a Hurricane warning by the country's government. Due to updated forecasts, it has also removed the waning for the province of Sancti Spiritus. 220,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas in the province, while 170,000 were evacuated from the province of . Hurricane Paloma was the seventeenth tropical depression of the . Paloma developed out of a strong tropical disturbance off the northern coast of Honduras on November 5. The disturbance had slowly developed into a tropical depression. The depression then became a tropical storm then a hurricane.
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