• Strongest storm this year: Melissa is strengthening before landfall, is now a 180 mph Category 5, and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. Such bouts of intensification are becoming ...

Hurricane Melissa is passing to the northwest of Bermuda on Thursday night after killing at least 40 people in the Caribbean. Bermuda is under a Hurricane Warning as the Category 2 storm passes nearby ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread ...

Hurricane Melissa strengthened even further as its eyewall approached landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. The fearsome Category 5 storm — the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began 174 ...

Hurricane Melissa hit Cuba as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm has ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba -- People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed. The rumble of large ...