Hurricane Oscar, now downgraded to a tropical storm over Cuba, was the smallest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, meteorologists said Monday. When the storm formed Saturday, hurricane hunters found Oscar’s hurricane wind field was only 5 to 6 miles across.

At least six people have died as a result of Hurricane Oscar in Cuba, the country's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has confirmed. Oscar made landfall as a category one hurricane near the city of Baracoa in eastern Cuba on Sunday afternoon local time before weakening to a tropical storm.

Hurricane Oscar has made landfall in eastern Cuba, an island beleaguered by a massive power outage, after striking the southeastern Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm's center arrived in the Cuban province of Guantanamo,