Hurricane Melissa has left a devastating trail across the Caribbean, becoming the most powerful storm to ever strike Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, ...

Josh Wurman and Karen Kosiba, the researchers inside the mobile radar unit, noted the average wind inside the hurricane’s ...

Hurricane Melissa has continued its devastating sweep across the Caribbean, destroying homes and infrastructure, flooding neighbourhoods and leaving dozens dead.

Hotter-than-average Caribbean water made Hurricane Melissa stronger and wetter. Its part of a trend that scientists link back to climate change.

Before Hurricane Melissa, the most damaging hurricane to hit Jamaica was Gilbert, which struck the island in September 1988.

Jamaica faces catastrophe as ‘storm of the century’ to make landfall - At least seven people have already been killed as the ...

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 ...

The 1967 season saw a record number of hurricanes for a season whose first storm didn't develop until the end of August. The ...

In the videos taken on Monday, Oct. 27, huge clusters of clouds swirl around the hurricane's "eye." At times, the clouds show ...

A Georgia Tech researcher says we may need more tools to measure the full impacts of strong hurricanes like Melissa.