JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Prior to landfall, Hurricane Hunters flew through Hurricane Melissa and found a pressure reading down to 892mb, making it the strongest storm at landfall in the Atlantic basin.

Satellite imagery tracked Hurricane Melissa as it bore down on Jamaica over a roughly 24-hour period from Monday, October 27, into Tuesday, October 28. The Cooperative Institute for Research in the ...

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and coastal Mississippi. It was one of the deadliest hurricanes on record and remains the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. The 2005 ...

Recent satellite imagery has unveiled the fascinating and rare formation of mesovortices around the eye of the destructive Hurricane Melissa. These miniature vortices, observed on October 31, 2025, ...

The QuickSCAT weather satellite has already outlived its predicted lifespan by three years.If it fails, the accuracy of predicting the paths and intensities of hurricanes could be reduced by 16%.

Parts of the Caribbean began surveying the extensive damage caused by the deadly Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 hurricane on Tuesday, Oct. 28. As the ...