Hurricanes are classified on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ranks storms based on their sustained wind speeds and estimates potential damage. The scale has five categories, ranging ...

Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, bringing several feet of rain and flooding to the island over the coming days. The Category 5 hurricane is the most powerful storm ...

Hurricane Melissa has joined a list of only about a dozen other Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the Atlantic. The deadly Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica's southwestern coast ...

Hurricane Melissa is approaching Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds. A recent study suggests global warming is fueling more intense and rapidly strengthening hurricanes. Scientists have ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica(AP) — Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago. It is tied for the strongest ...

NOW ATTEND THE FIRST DEVASTATING IMAGES AND VIDEO OUT OF JAMAICA. AFTER FEELING THE WRATH OF MELISSA. DOWNED POWER LINES, BUILDINGS DESTROYED AND OFFICIALS WONDERING WHERE TO BEGIN. THE MAJOR ...

Hurricane Melissa will quickly pass Bermuda days after its historic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica and southeast Cuba lashing, before it becomes a North Atlantic non-tropical low this weekend. The ...

When Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica on October 28, it showed just how devastatingly powerful a Category 5 hurricane can be—and then some. It will be weeks before experts can truly assess just ...

No hurricanes made landfall in the continental U.S. for the first time since 2015, as the season wavered between periods of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Heavy floodwaters swept across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore roofs off buildings, and boulders tumbled onto roads Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa pummeled the Caribbean island ...

The National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. Wednesday advisory reported that there were a lot of changes. Melissa became a Category 3 hurricane, before weakening to a Category 2 hurricane. Then, it was ...