Category 5 Hurricane Melissa sped up early Tuesday, Oct. 28, making landfall in Jamaica in the early afternoon, before making a second landfall in Cuba early Wednesday, Oct. 29. Torrential downpours ...

Hurricane Melissa was already one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean—and now scientists have confirmed a new way it neared superlative status. Newly released data show ...

Hurricane Melissa bears down on eastern Cuba, expected to make landfall as a major storm early Wednesday, after pummelling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes. Cuban authorities ...

Hurricane Melissa, which devastated western Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded, briefly restrengthened between Jamaica and Cuba late Tuesday before making a second landfall ...

Hurricane hunters verified that Category 5 Hurricane Melissa produced a 252 MPH wind gust, which is one of the strongest winds ever recorded on Earth. Holger Vömel, the senior scientist at the US ...

Videos recorded in Hurricane Melissa’s eyewall at landfall in Jamaica are starting to be released. They’re hard to watch. For survivors of hurricanes Maria, Otis, Dorian, Irma, and so many other ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season started with forecasts calling for an “above-normal” year, thanks to warm Atlantic waters and atmospheric patterns that usually fuel tropical development. But ...

Was the 2025 hurricane season a glimpse of of the future? Though Louisiana had a quiet season, an analysis of this year's storms in the Atlantic basin. points to a new trend—of more intense but less ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest ever recorded in the nation's history. Melissa is tied for the strongest Atlantic-basin landfall by wind ...