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 ...

Melissa’s sustained winds reached 185 mph at landfall in Jamaica. Only a handful of Atlantic hurricanes have reached such ...

With just over a week left of the 2025 hurricane season and no more tropical activity expected before then, hurricane experts are taking a look back on the season's record-breaking impacts.

Hurricane Melissa was a devastating category 5 storm that made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest systems on record ...

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

As the powerful storm prepared to hit Jamaica in late October, a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season runs through the end of the November, but without any expected development, forecasters ...

The structural vulnerability of many Jamaican schools is linked to decades of under-resourcing, where the state has adopted ...

As we continue to assess the toll left by Hurricane Melissa, one thing is clear: what we know so far confirms a scientific ...

Hurricane Melissa has joined a list of only about a dozen other Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the Atlantic. The deadly Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica's southwestern coast ...

Scientists are warning that Category 6 hurricanes may soon become a reality — and Hurricane Melissa might be the first of its kind. With wind speeds nearing 185 mph, Melissa devastated parts of ...