Hurricane Rafael, a powerful category 2 storm verging on category 3, was bearing down on western Cuba Wednesday morning. As of the 10 a.m. update, the National Hurricane Center noted it was “very ...
and had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, making it a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. The storm was heading west-northwest at 9 mph. “A turn toward the west is expected later ...