Hurricane Rafael, a Category 3 storm with winds near 115 mph, made landfall in western Cuba on Wednesday, leaving the island without power.

This blackout follows a similar outage in October, which led to emergency measures across Cuba.

The storm has disrupted power, with Cubans resorting to cooking on improvised wood stoves.

The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for Cuba, and Cuban authorities evacuated 37,000 people from Guantanamo ahead of the storm, CBS News has reported.

Rafael is expected to bring heavy rainfall and storm surges to Florida and the southeast U.S.

Written by B.C. Begley