Hurricanes are currently categorized on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which rates storms on a scale of 1-5 based ...

Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These ...

People walk along a road during the passing of Hurricane Melissa in Rocky Point, Jamaica, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Heavy floodwaters swept across ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Hurricane Melissa continues to maintain its strength as a monster Category 5 hurricane in the final hours before an expected catastrophic landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. On Monday ...

Hurricane Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Dominican Republic. It was a high-end Category 5 hurricane, and one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – With Hurricane Melissa's rapid intensification, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes, which hasn't happened in a single season for 20 years.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago. It is tied for the strongest ...

(NEXSTAR) — Hurricane Melissa has become one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record, reaching the rare strength of Category 5 on Monday. The “extremely dangerous” storm has its sights on Jamaica ...

BOULDER, Colo. — A fixed-wing drone built in Boulder by Black Swift Technologies made history this week by collecting what appears to be a record amount of high-resolution data from Hurricane Melissa.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — 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 ...