{"id":107759,"date":"2024-11-06T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hurricane-rafael-could-strengthen-to-category-3-before-landfall-in-cuba-latest-track-and-forecast\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:03:24","slug":"hurricane-rafael-could-strengthen-to-category-3-before-landfall-in-cuba-latest-track-and-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hurricane-rafael-could-strengthen-to-category-3-before-landfall-in-cuba-latest-track-and-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Rafael could strengthen to Category 3 before landfall in Cuba: Latest track and 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>(FLORIDA KEYS, Fla.) &#8212; Hurricane Rafael, now a powerful Category 2 hurricane, could strengthen into a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/accurate-hurricane-forecasting-meteorologists-explain\/story?id=114989006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major Category 3 hurricane<\/a>\u00a0later in the day before making landfall in Cuba on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Florida Keys, where heavy rain, gusty winds and even tornadoes are possible on Wednesday and into Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>By the weekend, Rafael will weaken as it stalls in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael isn&#8217;t posing a major threat to the U.S. Gulf Coast, but some of the tropical moisture could move toward the coast and add to the rain from an approaching cold front.<\/p>\n<p>Most models predict Rafael sitting in the Gulf into next week and possibly moving southwest toward Mexico.<\/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 (FLORIDA KEYS, Fla.) &#8212; Hurricane Rafael, now a powerful Category 2 hurricane, could strengthen into a\u00a0major Category 3 hurricane\u00a0later in the day before making landfall in Cuba on Wednesday night. A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Florida Keys, where heavy rain, gusty winds and even<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hurricane-rafael-could-strengthen-to-category-3-before-landfall-in-cuba-latest-track-and-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\/107759"}],"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=107759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}