Hurricane Charley passed over Cuba at Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on 13 August 2004. Four people were killed in the storm, and heavy damage was caused but little flooding as the hurricane passed over the island quickly.

This Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image, acquired on 12 August 2004, shows Hurricane Charley (centre border right image), beginning to make landfall over Cuba and approaching the coast of Florida further north.