U.S. weather forecasters have downgraded the tropical storm named Paloma to a tropical depression as it weakens over Cuba.
At last report Sunday, the storm was located near the city of Camaguey, with winds of 55 kilometers per hour. When Paloma came ashore Saturday as a hurricane, its winds downed power lines, toppled trees and damaged homes across the southern coast of Cuba.
Paloma is expected to continue weakening as it nears Cuba's northern coast and heads toward the Bahamas. Both the Cuban and Bahamian governments have discontinued all warnings associated with the storm.
A storm surge caused coastal flooding in Cuba. Paloma also dumped considerable rain on parts of the island nation, and is expected to do the same to parts of the Bahamas.
Paloma is the third major hurricane to hit Cuba this year. Ike and Gustav caused billions of dollars in damage.
Paloma drenched the Cayman Islands with torrential rains late last week, ripping roofs off of buildings and toppling trees.
There have been no reports of storm-related deaths.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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 .

The Hurricane is now weakening, however, with the NOAA stating that "continued weakening is expected over the next day or two, even after Paloma moves off the coast of Cuba."

The NOAA has also stated that "Paloma is expected to produce additional rainfall totals of 1 to 2 inches over eastern Cuba.  Rainfall accumulations of 5 to 10 inches are possible over the central Bahamas."

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.