Millions of people from the Caribbean to the U.S. Gulf Coast are keeping their eyes on Tropical Depression Eighteen as the system becomes better organized and is forecast to...

Tropical Storm Rafael is forecast to strengthen into the next hurricane of the season and track into the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall in the United States this coming weekend. AccuWeather has been monitoring the threat since the middle of October, well before the National Hurricane Center issued potential development alerts. Hurricane experts designated a tropical rainstorm Saturday to raise public awareness of the situation's seriousness. "Steering breezes will guide the tropical storm on a northwesterly track that takes it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands early this week and then western Cuba at midweek," AccuWeather Chief On-Air Meteorologist Bernie Rayno said, "In this zone, waters are sufficiently warm, and disruptive breezes and wind shear will be low." As the storm moves northward through the middle of the week and gains wind intensity, heavy, flooding rain and damaging winds are expected across Jamaica and Cuba. "This storm is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning as a Category 1 or possibly…

Tropical Depression No. 18 is poised to become a tropical storm and possibly a hurricane as it heads toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Rafael has formed in the Caribbean Sea and is most likely headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week, National Hurricane Center forecasters said Monday.