{"id":107728,"date":"2024-11-04T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/developing-storm-rafael-could-hit-the-gulf-coast-this-week-latest-forecast\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:03:29","slug":"developing-storm-rafael-could-hit-the-gulf-coast-this-week-latest-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/developing-storm-rafael-could-hit-the-gulf-coast-this-week-latest-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing storm Rafael could hit the Gulf Coast this week: Latest forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-04\/Tropicalstorm.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A tropical system churning in the Caribbean is forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Rafael on Monday as it takes aim at Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm warning has been issued for Jamaica, where Rafael is forecast to bring heavy rain and mudslides Monday night into Tuesday morning. A hurricane warning has been issued for the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael could strengthen to a hurricane by Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as it makes landfall in Cuba with heavy rain, strong winds, flash flooding and storm surge.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>By Saturday, Rafael could reach the U.S. Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too early to tell which parts of the Gulf Coast will see the worst conditions. Everyone from Texas to Florida should monitor the storm&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic hurricane season lasts through Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News A tropical system churning in the Caribbean is forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Rafael on Monday as it takes aim at Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and the Gulf Coast. A tropical storm warning has been issued for Jamaica, where Rafael is forecast to bring heavy rain and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/developing-storm-rafael-could-hit-the-gulf-coast-this-week-latest-forecast\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}