A tropical disturbance moved off the coast of Africa south of Dakar as a low pressure area with convection
on August 15th.  The system moved westward through the far eastern tropical Atlantic, turning west-northwest
as it moved through the central tropical Atlantic.  On the night of the 19th, ship reports indicated a surface circulation
existed.  By the afternoon of the 20th, reconnaissance aircraft found a tropical depression.  Rapid strengthening
ensued, and Cleo became a hurricane by the 21st while moving rapidly west-northwest.  Cleo moved over Guadeloupe
on the 22nd, passing south of St. Croix at midnight, and south of Puerto Rico on the 23rd as a category 4 hurricane.
Below are the rainfall graphics for Puerto Rico for Cleo, using data provided by the National Climatic Data Center in
Asheville, North Carolina.

 On the 24th, the center of Cleo moved just south of the Barahona Peninsula of the Dominican Republic, and made
landfall in southwest Haiti.  With the center of circulation significantly disrupted by the terrain of Haiti, it emerged
west of Haiti into the Caribbean Sea.  Cleo, as a minimal hurricane, crossed eastern Cuba during the night of the
26th while weakening to a tropical storm.  By early on the 27th, Cleo regained hurricane intensity before making
landfall onto Key Biscayne as a small-sized storm, becoming the first hurricane strike for Miami in 14 years.
Moving  generally northward, Cleo slowly weakened as it passed inland along the east coast past Melbourne.

The graphics below is the storm total rainfall for Cleo using data obtained from the National Climatic Data Center
in Asheville, North Carolina.   The maxima occurred near and to the right of its track through South Carolina,
before shifting to the left of its track across eastern North Carolina and Virginia.  The highest maximum fell along
a frontal boundary to the north of Cleo in southeast Virginia.