Hurricanes are measured on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which runs from Category 1 up to Category 5. According to ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Hurricane Melissa became a powerful Category 5 hurricane in the Caribbean on Monday. It was mostly stationary and about 150 miles from Kingston, Jamaica, the National Hurricane Center ...

The World Meteorological Organization has retired the name Melissa from its Atlantic basin naming lists after the Category 5 ...

Nothing like Helene, and nothing like three hurricanes making landfall in 66 days. Sunday’s end to the hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin was welcomed from the Gulf states to the Atlantic ...

While Jamaica braces for hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm of 2025, Alachua County residents have had an unusually quiet October, void of hurricane preparation and tracking. UF Chief ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Hurricanes this year were stronger longer and tracked over locations never covered before by such intense major storms. Jacksonville experienced record flooding and severe beach ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is over. Florida didn't get hit once. It wasn't a dull season, by any means. There were eight tropical storms and five hurricanes, four major, three of which spun up ...

NEW YORK -- Jamaica is projecting that visitor arrivals will rebound to approximately 80% of pre-hurricane levels by the end of 2026. It has been nearly two months since Hurricane Melissa made ...

Hurricane Melissa has brought never-before seen levels of devastation to Jamaica, the UN's resident coordinator in the country said Wednesday.