(CBC News)
Tomas has been upgraded to hurricane status as it moves toward Haiti, where more than one million people are still living in temporary shelters and camps after January's powerful earthquake.
The hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 130 km/h and some additional strengthening is expected, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Friday morning.
Tomas was about 280 kilometres west of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, where heavy rain was falling.
"Storm surge and winds will be a concern for the warned areas but rainfall is the major threat for Haiti," said CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe.
Heavy rain could cause flash floods or landslides on Haiti's unstable hillsides.
Authorities have urged the people living under tarps and in tents to seek safer shelter, but many of the displaced have said they have nowhere else to go.
The storm is expected to cross over Haiti's southwestern tip then swirl through the strait that divides Haiti from Cuba.
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