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Hurricane season is still around. Hurricane Rafael, which made landfall in western Cuba as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday, is now gradually moving over the central Gulf of Mexico, according to ...
Lights from a car illuminate a Havana street after Cuba’s energy grid suffered a complete blackout during Hurricane Rafael’s landfall. The system was a Category 3 hurricane when it hit the ...
Rafael strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane overnight, with sustained winds of 120 mph, but the latest path seems to be heading away from Florida and the rest of the U.S. in a meandering trip ...
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...
It is only the sixth hurricane to be recorded in the Gulf of Mexico in November and the third to be rated Category 2 or higher. The others were Ida in 2009, a Category 2 storm, and Kate in 1985 ...
Rafael continues to strengthen and is now a Category 2 hurricane closing in on Cuba after lashing the Cayman Islands in the western Caribbean with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday night.
It was the first Category 3 hurricane to hit Cuba since Hurricane Ian in September 2022. In October, Hurricane Oscar — a Category 1 storm — struck the island, killing at least 6 people.
The storm is expected to continue weakening as it travels inland. As of 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, Francine's center was about 35 miles northwest of New Orleans, the hurricane center said.