Hurricane Rafael is currently swirling past the Cayman Islands and is projected to rapidly intensify before making landfall on Wednesday in western Cuba as a Category 2 hurricane. This development comes as Cuba is still reeling from the aftermath of a previous hurricane that claimed the lives of at least six individuals in the eastern part of the island.
As of Wednesday morning, Hurricane Rafael was located 65 miles north-northeast of Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands, boasting maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and moving northwest at 13 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
