Hurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists have confirmed that its ...

Jamaica is bracing for what could be its worst hurricane in recorded history, per USA Today. As of Monday (October 27) at 11 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Melissa, now a ...

A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft measured a 252-mile-per-hour gust at the ocean surface as the monster storm approached ...

Editor’s note (Oct 29th 2025): Melissa has now crossed Jamaica and Cuba, where warnings of flash flooding and landslides remain in effect. It has weakened and is heading towards the Bahamas. It is the ...

As Category 5 hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica, it is poised to be the worst storm to ever hit the Caribbean island, surpassing the damage from Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Gilbert, which hit ...

Hurricanes are measured many ways: death toll, in buildings destroyed, billions of dollars in damage or days of power outages. But even before any of those likely horrifying figures are known for ...

Hurricane Melissa is now a powerful Category 5 storm. Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is bearing down on Jamaica and is forecast to be the worst storm in the island's history.

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood. Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa ...

Half a million people evacuated in Cuba Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans without power Parts of western Jamaica 'underwater,' minister says Southwest Jamaica was battered by Beryl last year KINGSTON ...

Direct landfalls from big hurricanes are rare for Jamaica. Melissa could pummel the island as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane, forecasters said. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter ...