Hurricane Rafael picked up in intensity and became a Category 3 storm before making landfall in Cuba Wednesday, forecasters ...

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

Cuba is reeling after a powerful Category 3 hurricane ripped across the island and fierce winds knocked out the country’s power grid.

Forecast models are aligned on Rafael’s path over the next two to three days, but uncertainty grows significantly beyond that timeframe.

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

Hurricane Rafael, a Category 3 storm, made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday, causing major damage and widespread power outages across the country. The storm had already impacted the Cayman Islands and ...

Rafael made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday afternoon in western Cuba before weakening, the National Hurricane ...

Little Cayman was left reeling after the passage of Hurricane Rafael, which sank boats, downed power lines and trees, and ...

Hurricane Rafael began lashing Cuba's south shore as a Category 3 cyclone shortly after noon on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, packing sustained winds of 115 mph (185 kph) and ...