Article first published: Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, 4 a.m. ET Article last updated: Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, 4 p.m. ET The post-tropical cyclone system was last addressed in a final advisory by the National Hurricane Center at 4 pm Sunday. Rafael has lost ...

Rafael will continue to weaken as it tracks westward through the Gulf. This is partially due to increasing wind shear and more overall hostile environmental conditions. The wind shear is in association with a cold front moving across Texas. This front will help to deflect the storm from us.

Potential Tropical Cyclone No. 8 has formed in the southwestern Caribbean this afternoon. This system will likely strengthen further and soon become Rafael as it makes its journey to the north. A hurricane is possible as it nears Cuba and sits underneath an upper-level anticyclone,

The post-tropical cyclone system was last addressed in a final advisory by the National Hurricane Center at 4 pm Sunday. The tropical storm Rafael has weakened into a post-tropical cyclone. Post Tropical Cyclone Rafael is 345 miles north-northwest of Progreso Mexico, with maximum sustained wind of 35 mph. It’s moving at 3 mph to the east.

Article last updated: Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, 3 p.m. ET

The storm Rafael rapidly weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm late on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. Rafael was located about 460 miles (740 km) east of the mouth of the Rio Grande with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kmh),

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Rafael remains disorganized in the Gulf of Mexico and should continue to weaken, but forecasters are also keeping their eyes on a tropical disturbance that popped up in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hurricane Rafael was downgraded to a tropical storm as it continued westward in the Gulf of Mexico posing no threat to land for now while the National Hurricane Center kept track of another system with low odds to develop into the next tropical depression or storm.

A new tropical wave has emerged just east of the Bahamas, as Tropical Storm Rafael continues moving through the Gulf, the National Hurricane Center said.