Rafael has weakened to a tropical storm and was expected to dissolve over the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days after barreling across Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane.

Nov. 8 (UPI) --Rafael has weakened into a tropical storm as slowly moved in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. In the 3 a.m. CST Saturday update from the National Hurricane Center, the 18th named storm of the Atlantic season had maximum sustained winds of 65 ...

Rafael was moving west across the Gulf of Mexico Friday morning as the first major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in November for almost 40 years, bringing the threat of life-threatening conditions to the southern United States coastline.