Hurricane Melissa has become one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic. Melissa is hours away from making landfall over Jamaica as an extremely dangerous major hurricane, the ...

By Sarah Morland KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa churned north-east toward Cuba's second-largest city on Tuesday as a ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest ever recorded in the nation's history. Melissa is tied for the strongest Atlantic-basin landfall by wind ...

Melissa directly hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the nation.

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 slammed into Jamaica as one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded — with the United Nations declaring the disaster “the storm of the century.” Melissa smashed into Jamaica’s ...

So far, the Atlantic has seen 13 named systems during hurricane season, with Erin, Humberto and Melissa reaching Category 5—the strongest rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Hurricane Melissa’s historic landfall in Jamaica destroyed homes and left trees scattered in the streets. Brian Trascher, Louisiana national vice president of the United Cajun ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Two Toledo sisters celebrating a birthday trip are stranded in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. Tonae Crayton and her sister ...