The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, according to an update from the National ...

Melissa’s sustained winds reached 185 mph at landfall in Jamaica. Only a handful of Atlantic hurricanes have reached such speeds.

With hurricane season in full swing, there's a lot of talk from meteorologists about hurricane "categories." What do they mean, and what do they tell us about a storm? It turns out, a hurricane's ...

Hurricanes are classified on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ranks storms based on their sustained wind speeds and estimates potential damage. The scale has five categories, ranging ...

It was the first time since 2015 that no hurricanes directly impacted the U.S.

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ended on Nov. 30. The season ended with 13 named storms, five hurricanes and four major ...

"They were more or less steered to the north." Expert reveals why the US was not hit by a hurricane for the first time in a ...

The season produced one of the most intense landfalling hurricanes ever observed ...

Hurricane Melissa is approaching Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds. A recent study suggests global warming is fueling more intense and rapidly strengthening hurricanes. Scientists have ...