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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Hurricane Rafael has pushed into the Gulf of Mexico after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country’s power ...

Hurricane Rafael struck Cuba Wednesday as a category 3 hurricane and then started its move over the Gulf of Mexico.

Freshman Jacob Cofie scored 16 points off the bench and Virginia opened its season with a 65-56 win over Campbell on Wednesday night in Charlottesville, Va.

, Fla. — Hurricane Rafael has made landfall along the southern Cuban coast. The storm made landfall in the Cuban province of ...

Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, shortly after powerful winds knocked ...

The hurricane, dubbed Hurricane Rafael, is the fifth to make landfall in the Atlantic Ocean this year. The hurricane comes toward the tail-end of hurricane season, which concludes at the end of ...