Hurricane Melissa set records on it's way to impacting Jamaica, one was the largest wind gust ever recorded within a ...

A record-breaking 252 mph wind reading measured by a dropsonde launched from an NOAA Hurricane Hunter airplane during a ...

Editor’s note (Oct 29th 2025): Melissa has now crossed Jamaica and Cuba, where warnings of flash flooding and landslides remain in effect. It has weakened and is heading towards the Bahamas. It is the ...

A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft measured a 252-mile-per-hour gust at the ocean surface as the monster storm approached ...

As the powerful storm prepared to hit Jamaica in late October, a probe launched out of the belly of a Hurricane Hunters ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest ever recorded in the nation's history. Melissa is tied for the strongest Atlantic-basin landfall by wind ...

NEW HOPE, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday afternoon near New Hope, Jamaica, as the strongest hurricane to ever hit the island nation — and one of the strongest storms in Atlantic ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Hurricane Melissa has secured its place in weather history after making multiple destructive landfalls across the Caribbean, becoming one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in ...

As we brace for the largest solar storm in two decades, scientists are predicting a rare “cannibal storm” that could ...

Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com. In addition to editing content, Alex also covers breaking news, writing about crime and severe weather as well as everything from multistate lottery ...