Rafael continues to intensify and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane early Wednesday morning, and forecasters say the late-season storm could approach major hurricane strength when it makes ...

Hurricane Rafael has shift and is now moving west into the Gulf of Mexico and towards the Texas-Mexico border. See impacts ...

"Rafael is expected to continue to move away from western Cuba over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico," the National Hurricane Center predicts.

A hurricane warning has been issued for this region, where life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding ...

In 1849, meteorologist Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., began plotting daily weather maps ...

Tropical Storm Rafael intensified into a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday, making landfall in western Cuba as it approached the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Forecasters say a new tropical storm is expected to form in the Caribbean and will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and the Cayman ...

Tornadoes, dangerous surf, coastal flooding and heavy rain are set to hit the US in this late season hurricane which has ...

Damaging hurricane-force winds, a dangerous storm surge and destructive waves are expected ... the time it reaches hurricane strength. A map charting Rafael's projected path through the Caribbean ...

In Chambers County, Texas ... maps, combined with socioeconomic data, could help focus flood mitigation efforts. More information: Ke Wang et al, Subtle Land Subsidence Elevates Future Storm Surge ...