Hurricane Melissa continues its devastating march across the Caribbean, making landfall over western Jamaica this afternoon as a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds near 165 mph. [...] ...

Lightning flashes in the eyewall of Category 5 Melissa are a marker of how strong the storm is. It reached a central pressure ...

Historic, life-threatening flash flooding and landslides are expected in portions of Jamaica, southern Haiti and the ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica Tuesday. Officials and residents braced for catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides from the Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall over New Hope, Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon as a powerful and destructive Category 5 storm.

The center of Hurricane Charlie skirted the southern coast of Jamaica on the night of Aug. 17, 1951, before it made landfall ...

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...