Hurricane Melissa is already a history-making storm, landing on all-time lists for strongest Atlantic Basin hurricanes and ...

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...

The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the "Hurricane Hunters," were forced to turn back ...

As an island country in the Caribbean Sea, hurricanes aren’t new in Jamaica. Hurricanes hovering over the island while ...

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in the 174 years since ...

Hurricane Melissa has just tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in ...

The storm caused widespread damage in Jamaica to infrastructure and cut internet access for most of its two million people.

The Category 5 storm made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, with winds of 185 mph, tying the record for the strongest storm at ...