According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Homer Simpson, is a rating of 1 to 5 based on a hurricane's ...
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 ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Heavy floodwaters swept across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore roofs off buildings and boulders tumbled onto roads Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa came ashore as a catastrophic ...
Melissa is one of the most powerful landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane -- one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on ...
Melissa is the fifth most intense Atlantic basin hurricane on record by pressure and the strongest to make landfall since Hurricane Dorian in 2019, according to hurricane specialist and storm surge ...