Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph ...

Melissa became a devastating Category 5 hurricane over the weekend despite having only traveled roughly 150 miles since Friday morning, Oct. 24. At least four deaths have been attributed to Hurricane ...

Hurricane Melissa first flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane on Oct. 28 with sustained winds of 185 mph and even stronger gusts. Melissa then barreled over ...

With less than three months until the start of a new hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is wrapping up some of ...

Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago. It is tied for the strongest ...

A new “Wall of Wind” facility will test winds of up to 200 miles per hour, and storm surges up to 20 feet high. Part of Florida International University’s Extreme Events Institute, the planned $12.8 ...

Thursday’s windstorm was one for the record books with the highest wind speed ever recorded at the Cheyenne airport. Although ...

Powerful hurricanes have shaped coastal communities for centuries, leaving behind destruction that can alter entire regions.

Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released ...