Paloma still over Camaguey province Cuba
At 12:30 am est, hurricane Paloma was near Camaguey or just south of there. Unfortunately, Camaguey stopped reporting observations at 8 pm est. The position estimate is being made by radar fixes, which also, stopped working at 10:15 pm est (Camaguey). Other radars much farther away are still operational. Satellite imagery is not a great help either, as the eye is no longer visible and wind shear is making the cloud structure very asymmetrical. Also with Paloma over Cuba, the hurricane hunters can not send a vortex fix.
Officially an estimate of 968 mb was made by NHC at 10 pm est with winds at 115 mph. We seriously doubt that winds are that strong. NHC tends to error on the high side of surface sustained winds. We'll estimate that the top winds are about 85 mph at this time. When NHC puts out their 1 am est advisory they will likely go with about 100 mph. Check the link below if you want to see.
Hurricane Paloma will decrease to tropical storm strength during the morning. Upper air wind shear should keep the weakening trend going. Interests in the south central Bahamas will see rain heavy at times and tropical storm force winds Sunday.
TropicalWeather.net's Tropical Pic 1 - I.R. Satellite

TropicalWeather.net's Tropical Pic 2 - Cuban Radar 10 pm est
