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KINGSTON, Jamaica – With Hurricane Melissa's rapid intensification, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes, which hasn't happened in a single season for 20 years.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica, near New Hope, on Tuesday at 1 pm ET with staggeringly powerful sustained winds of 185 mph. In the National Hurricane Center update noting the ...

Part of the fun of asking someone what movies scare them is that the answers tend to be unpredictable. Fear is individual, specific, and deeply felt: A person made anxious by the ocean may not be able ...

Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica, tied for second strongest storm in Atlantic Basin history Hurricane Melissa close to breaking pressure record ahead of Jamaica landfall GOP-led Oversight ...

The storm is one of the strongest on record in the Atlantic Ocean. By Judson Jones Meteorologist and reporter From space, the eye of Hurricane Melissa, spinning in the Caribbean on Tuesday, looked ...

A low pressure system is pushing into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, carrying enough ingredients for a low-level severe storm threat. Roughly 15 million Americans in parts of the mid-Atlantic could ...

Hurricanes are measured many ways: death toll, in buildings destroyed, billions of dollars in damage or days of power outages. But even before any of those likely horrifying figures are known for ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify into a major hurricane. Will Melissa impact Florida? See the latest predictions. AccuWeather is predicting Melissa could become one of the ...

With maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour as it batters the Caribbean island of Jamaica on Tuesday, Hurricane Melissa is a beast of a storm. Satellite and other images starkly illustrate ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Heavy floodwaters swept across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore roofs off buildings and boulders tumbled onto roads Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa came ashore as a catastrophic ...