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

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 flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Cat 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 ...

The Category 5 hurricane caused catastrophic flooding and landslides, resulting in contaminated, disease-ridden water.

Why many Americans perceive the 2025 hurricane season, which had 13 named storms and three Category 5 storms, as "quiet." ...

Jamaica has declared an outbreak of the bacterial disease leptospirosis, suspected of causing six deaths, following the ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is about to wrap up with a strange split personality: fewer storms than normal, but an ...

Hurricane Melissa is expected to continue to gain force as it threatens catastrophic damage to Jamaica. Latest updates.

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

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season brought 13 named storms and five hurricanes, including Hurricane Melissa, which devastated ...

Can you believe that we are already heading into the final week of November? The countdown is on—not to Christmas just ...

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.