WEAR-TV — Hurricane Rafael struck Cuba Wednesday as a category 3 hurricane and then started its move over the Gulf of Mexico. Rafael is forecast to move west over the Gulf as a hurricane over ...

Tropical storm Rafael has strengthened to hurricane intensity in recent hours and is still set to continue its path toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas producers have shut-in ...

About 17% of crude oil production and 7% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut in response to Hurricane Rafael, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said on ...

And model forecasts continue to struggle with these factors and that is why the forecast is more uncertain than normal. Rafael will move westward across the central Gulf of Mexico over the next 48 ...

By Thursday morning, Rafael will enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico, likely as a Category 2 hurricane (winds from 96 to 110 mph). The storm will continue westward into the central Gulf of Mexico by ...

Editor's note: Hurricane Rafael has emerged in the Gulf of Mexico after making landfall in Cuba. Updates on this story have moved here. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Rafael made landfall at ...

Hurricane Rafael continued to lose steam in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday after striking Cuba as a Category 3 major hurricane one day earlier. As of 7 a.m., Rafael was still a Category 2 ...

NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Oil prices edged up about 1% on Tuesday with a storm expected to cut U.S. output in the Gulf of Mexico and as the U.S. dollar weakened on Election Day with polls ...

On the forecast track, Rafael is expected to move over the southern Gulf of Mexico for the next few days. Additional rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are expected Thursday, leading to total ...

Hurricane Rafael, still a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph, turned west-northwestward over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico after tearing across Cuba Wednesday, according to the ...

While Hurricane Rafael headed west into the Gulf of Mexico and no threat to land for now, the National Hurricane Center kept track of another system with low odds to develop into the season’s ...

Oil and natural gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico were securing operations Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Rafael's expected arrival this week. Chevron on Wednesday said it was suspending ...