Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even ...

When Melissa came ashore, it tied strength records for Atlantic hurricanes making landfall, both in wind speed and barometric ...

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever ...

The news “underscores the profound ecological toll that Hurricane Melissa will have on Jamaica’s biodiversity,” said one ...

The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at ...

Scientists call this “rapid intensification”. As the planet warms, this violent strengthening is becoming more common. These ...

The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall over Jamaica was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, a Category 4 hurricane, with ...

Rapid intensification of Hurricane Melissa has made it the second-strongest hurricane in the Atlantic on record.

Hurricane Melissa has grown into one of the most powerful storms the Atlantic has seen in years. Here are five startling ...

On Sunday and Monday, as the storm was approaching Jamaica, the U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the “Hurricane Hunters," had been monitoring the storm by flying ...

Tossed and battered by violent wind and severe turbulence, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of ...

Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm with winds of 175 mph, will slam into Jamaica as the worst storm the ...