NU Online News Service, Nov. 8, 3:22 p.m. EST

Haiti and Cuba were spared the full force of Hurricane Tomas over the weekend as the storm skirted the islands through the Windward Strait without making landfall.

The storm passed between Cuba and Haiti on Nov. 5 as a Category 1 hurricane without making landfall, according to a summary from Guy Carpenter's Instrat unit. The storm then tracked across the Turk and Caicos Islands as a tropical storm on Nov. 6.

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