It's now virtually certain 2024 will be the hottest year on record, and the first with over 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above the pre-industrial average, according to the ...

Forecasters expected the storm to later weaken over Cuba before emerging in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane.

Hurricane Rafael, the latest in a record-breaking hurricane season, enters the Gulf as weary Gulf Coast residents brace for ...

The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Rafael weakened into a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 on its way into the Gulf of Mexico, while the ...

After becoming a hurricane near the Cayman Islands, Rafael made landfall along the western part of Cuba on Wednesday afternoon. The storm even intensified into a major hurricane becoming a Category 3 ...

The hurricane center cautioned there is "larger-than-normal uncertainty regarding Rafael's intensity later in the forecast ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Hurricane Rafael is now a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph at the center, with higher gusts. According to the latest NHC update, the storm is nearing landfall in Western Cuba.

Hurricane Rafael rages to major Category 3 Hurricane Rafael rapidly intensified into a major category 3 storm in the Caribbean as it neared the western coast of Cuba, the National Hurricane Center ...

Rafael has made landfall in western Cuba as a category 3 hurricane. After moving across Cuba, Rafael will then head into the ...

Tropical Storm Rafael intensified into a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday, making landfall in western Cuba as it approached ...

Rafael dropped from a Category 3 hurricane to a Category 2 this afternoon as it continued moving northwest over Cuba.