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Editor's note: Follow along here for updates about Tropical Storm Oscar on Monday, Oct. 21. Oscar made landfall in eastern Cuba Sunday evening amid a power blackout, adding to fears that the storm ...
Forecasters expected the storm to weaken over Cuba before emerging in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane. The U.S. State Department issued an advisory for Cuba on Tuesday afternoon ...
Hurricane Rafael has strengthened into a Category 3 storm as it approaches the coast of western Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center. Rafael was located about 85 miles south of Havana ...
Tropical Storm Oscar made landfall as a hurricane early Sunday in the southeastern Bahamas before heading toward Cuba, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to the island, the National Hurricane ...
Hurricane Rafael has strengthened into a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 115 mph, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center. The eyewall is approaching the south ...
Overnight, Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba's western province of Artemisa, per the National Hurricane Center. As it pummeled the already battered country on its knees from Tropical Storm ...
Hurricane Oscar made landfall Sunday evening on the northern coast of east Cuba before it weakened to a tropical storm as it moved across the island, according to the National Hurricane Center ...
The blackout was considered to be Cuba’s worst since Hurricane Ian hit the island as a Category 3 storm in 2022 and damaged power installations. It took days for the government to fix them ...
Forecasters say a new tropical storm is expected to form in the Caribbean and will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands before strengthening to a hurricane and likely hitting Cuba.
Rafael marks the 17th named storm and 11th hurricane of the 2024 season, which runs through November 30—significantly exceeding the average seasonal totals of 14 named storms and seven hurricanes.
The storm has killed at least six people in Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Monday night. The deaths were in the eastern province of Guantánamo, where the climate is typically dry.