Three Category 5 Hurricanes In One Atlantic Season A First In 20 Years

These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare ...

Melissa joins small list of Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall

Now, after days of torrential rainfall and strong winds, seven reported fatalities, and with maximum sustained wind speeds ...

Hurricane Melissa is now strongest storm of 2025: What makes it rare? Know about Category 5 storms

Hurricane Melissa's maximum sustained winds are 175 mph (282km/h) – category five – with stronger gusts as of 2 pm ET, ...

Melissa is one of the most powerful hurricanes ever. Here’s how it ranks.

Only 81 hurricanes have struck as Category 4 or higher since 1851, or about one every other year on average. A couple have crippled multiple points at that strength. Irma, in 2017, managed to hit five ...
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Hurricane Melissa Tied Record Strongest Atlantic Basin Landfall In Nearly 100 Years

Hurricane Melissa is already a history-making storm, landing on all-time lists for strongest Atlantic Basin hurricanes and ...

Is Melissa a Category 6 hurricane? What to know about the Saffir-Simpson scale

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 ...