“The electricity goes out every day,” said a Cuban taxi driver. “It’s normal in Cuba to see it go out for three, four hours.

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 ...

Melissa, which was previously a Category 5 storm when it ripped through Jamaica yesterday, hit the city as a Category 3 storm and has currently weakened to a Category 2.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Melissa made a second landfall in eastern Cuba near Chivirico just after 3 a.m. Wednesday as a major Category 3 hurricane. Melissa is now moving away from Cuba and ...

After Melissa moves away from Jamaica, Cuba is next in line for the powerful hurricane’s fury. Landfall is expected very early Wednesday morning, likely a couple hours after midnight, but impacts have ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season continues to be active with Hurricane Melissa now a major hurricane. Here is the latest advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center: The ...

Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 4 hurricane, and could develop further to become a Category 5 as it approaches Jamaica, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane is ...

Hurricane Melissa is on track to pass through the southeastern islands of the Bahamas, which are sparsely populated compared to the islands in the north of the archipelago. The two islands that are in ...

In the last 25 years, a total of 10 major hurricanes have lashed the island. “Cuba is right in the center of things,” a weather historian said. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s ...

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said late on Thursday that most of the Caribbean island nation would open to international tourism starting next week as it moved towards a "new normality" after ...