Rafael is expected to maintain hurricane status as it enters the Gulf of Mexico, but its long trek across the Gulf could weaken the storm below tropical storm status, NHC spokesperson Erica Grow Cei ...

As of 4:15 p.m. ET, the storm was located about 40 miles southwest of Havana, Cuba, and was expected to move into the ...

* After a Cat. 3 landfall late Wed. 40 miles SW of Havana, Rafael will move over the Gulf of Mexico through the weekend. * “ ...

Even without a landfall in Florida, the state is expected to feel some impacts from Rafael, starting as early as today.

Rafael continued to intensify and strengthen into a major hurricane on Wednesday afternoon as the late-season storm barreled ...

Even without a landfall in Florida, the state is expected to feel some impacts from Rafael, starting as early as today.

Hurricane Rafael has strengthened into a Category 3 storm as it approaches the western coast of Cuba, according to the ...

By 7 p.m., the storm's eye was moving into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane center said ... Matanzas and the ...

Steady to rapid intensification is forecast over the next 24 to 36 hours, Rafael became a Category 1 hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean.

Hurricane Rafael formed in the northwestern Caribbean near the Cayman Islands on its way to making landfall in Cuba.

Tropical Storm Rafael formed Monday afternoon in the Caribbean Sea, where it is expected to cross Jamaica, the Grand Cayman ...