The start to the holiday season's gatherings and good cheer can be spoiled when Mother Nature gets ugly. Check out these ...

Melissa’s terrifying trip through the Caribbean also piled on evidence of the influence of a warming ocean on an evolving hurricane landscape.

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall as the strongest-ever storm in Jamaica as winds reached 295km per hour, leaving hundreds ...

Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest ever recorded in the Caribbean, is set to hit Jamaica early on Tuesday after ...

HURRICANE Melissa is barrelling towards Jamaica at terrifying pace – with locals barricading their homes and tourists ...

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

Hurricane forecasts are a lifesaving tool for coastal residents during the summer and autumn months. Vast storms swirling around the Atlantic Ocean can turn toward shore with high winds, dangerous ...

Amid the weather forecasters calling Hurricane Melissa the storm of the year, it has strengthened its grip over Jamaica, ...

Hurricane Melissa's sustained winds of 185-mph become one of the two strongest Atlantic storms on record to make landfall, USA TODAY reported.

A Georgia Tech researcher says we may need more tools to measure the full impacts of strong hurricanes like Melissa.

A monster hurricane is bearing down on the Caribbean with warnings that it could be the “worst storm” in Jamaica’s history ...

Hurricanes often capture headlines with their destructive force, but there’s much more to these powerful storms than meets the eye. While most people understand that hurricanes are intense tropical ...