Category 5 Hurricane Melissa was an eye-popping storm, smashing historical records — and the western end of Jamaica — last week. A rapid fire series of new scientific studies also suggest that climate ...

Hurricane Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Dominican Republic. It was a high-end Category 5 hurricane, and one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as by far the strongest storm to hit the island since records were first kept 174 years ago. Melissa is a Category 5 storm with ...

The death toll from Hurricane Melissa is growing as the powerful storm moves across the Bahamas after leaving a trail of “catastrophic” destruction across Jamaica and parts of Cuba. Authorities in ...

Hurricane forecasting has significantly improved, allowing for earlier and more aggressive predictions of rapid intensification. The National Hurricane Center successfully predicted Hurricane Melissa ...

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 damage. At that ...

Three studies found that Melissa would have probably been a weaker, drier storm if it weren’t for decades of human-caused warming of the atmosphere. This satellite image was provided by the National ...