Hurricane Rafael was located 40 miles west of Havana on Wednesday, swirling over the northern coast of the western half of the island.
Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday as a powerful category 3 storm, plowing across the western part of the island shortly after powerful winds knocked out the country's power grid.
Massive waves lashed at the shores of Havana as sharp winds and rain whipped at the city's historic centre, leaving trees littered on deserted streets last evening.
Forecasters warned Rafael could bring life-threatening storm surges, winds and flash floods to western swaths of the island after it knocked out power and dumped rain on the Cayman Islands and Jamaica the day before.
The storm was located 40 miles west of Havana on Wednesday, swirling over the northern coast of the western half of the island.
After plowing across the island, Rafael slowed to a category 2 hurricane.
According to the US National Hurricane Center, it had maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour and was moving northwest at 14 miles per hour.
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