Up to 20 inches of rain is forecast in some regions of Cuba, which could trigger flash flooding and mudslides.

The National Hurricane Center is continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Oscar, which is producing heavy rainfall and life-threatening flash flooding over portions of eastern Cuba after making landfall on Sunday morning as a hurricane.

Tropical Storm Oscar brought heavy rains and winds to Cuba, an island already beleaguered by a massive power outage, late Sunday after brushing the Bahamas. It made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) in the eastern Cuban province of Guantanamo,

Tropical Storm Oscar continues to bring heavy rainfall and flooding threats to eastern Cuba and the southeastern Bahamas to start the week.

The former Category 1 hurricane has weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall Sunday in eastern Cuba.

Tropical Storm Oscar remained crouched over eastern Cuba, where it could drop more than a foot of rain as it crawls over the island nation at 3 mph. Oscar was a tiny, weak storm, with tropical-storm-force winds extending just 45 miles from the center and maximum sustained winds at 40 mph.

Tropical Storm Oscar was moving across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage.

Tropical Storm Oscar dumped heavy rain across eastern Cuba on Monday after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage. Its maximum sustained winds blew at 40 mph on Monday as Oscar moved northwest at 6 mph.