Hurricane Rafael churned in the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, moving away from Cuba after pummeling the country with flooding rain and knocking out its vulnerable electrical grid.

The storm had weakened somewhat since making landfall Wednesday, and by Thursday it had changed directions over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and was moving away from Cuba, according to the ...

Rafael – now a Category 2 hurricane – entered the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday night after cutting through Cuba and will track west over the southern Gulf through the weekend. The storm will be in ...

Forecasters warned that swells from the storm were likely to cause dangerous surf and rip current conditions in parts of the north and west gulf coast. Rafael struck western Cuba on Wednesday.

MIAMI – Powerful Hurricane Rafael slammed into Cuba as a major hurricane on Wednesday. The late-season tropical system has now emerged in the Gulf of Mexico, but the question now turns to where ...

Rafael Dissolves Into a Low Pressure System in the Gulf of Mexico After Hitting Cuba as a Hurricane MIAMI (AP) — Rafael has weakened into a low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico after ...