With winds whirling at about 290 kilometers per hour, Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean — and is poised to become the strongest storm ever to make landfall ...

When Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica, it shattered nearly two centuries of weather records, unleashing a force so extreme that even the island’s most resilient buildings stood little chance ...

It’s a gorgeous Saturday morning in downtown Sarasota, with a gentle breeze and the sun glistening off calm bay waters dotted with pleasure boats — but down in the Caribbean, a storm that shares its ...

Erin became the Atlantic season's first hurricane as expected late Aug. 15, then exploded into a Category 5 storm Aug. 16. Monday morning, Aug. 18, it was a Category 4 storm after a short-lived dip to ...