Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, forecasters warn. While both storms reached sustained winds of 175 mph at their peak, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm.

Mr. Gerard was a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 35 years, and helped forecast some of America’s largest weather-related disasters, including Hurricane Katrina ...

Hurricane Melissa has begun its slow march towards Jamaica, and it is now one of the top 10 strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. As of the 2 p.m. update by the NOAA National Hurricane Center, ...

Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica when it made landfall on Tuesday. Satellite images show the extent of damage the island sustained. The deadly hurricane has left more than half a million people in ...

Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this week.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – On Oct. 28, 2025, Hurricane Melissa made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica on the island's southwestern coast and proceeded to carve a path of destruction throughout the day that has ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Prior to landfall, Hurricane Hunters flew through Hurricane Melissa and found a pressure reading down to 892mb, making it the strongest storm at landfall in the Atlantic basin.

Satellite imagery tracked Hurricane Melissa as it bore down on Jamaica over a roughly 24-hour period from Monday, October 27, into Tuesday, October 28. The Cooperative Institute for Research in the ...

On October 28, 2025, Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 superstorm with sustained winds of 185 mph, bore down on Jamaica, threatening the island's 2.8 million residents with what officials called ...

The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built. Meteorologists who have spent the past few days ...

With the help of satellites, we are beginning to get an understanding of just how catastrophic Hurricane Melissa was. On Oct. 28, Hurricane Melissa became the fourth hurricane in 75 years to make ...