As we continue to assess the toll left by Hurricane Melissa, one thing is clear: what we know so far confirms a scientific ...

Melissa was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall and brought destructive weather to Jamaica, Haiti, ...

Warmer ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, are making such explosive storm developments more common.

These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare ...

Hurricane Melissa now holds a place in Atlantic basin record books as one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to develop and make landfall. The storm became a hurricane at 11 a.m. Saturday with ...

Hurricane Melissa is among the strongest hurricanes to have formed in the Atlantic Ocean since records were kept, ranking as one the most powerful storms in terms of both wind strength and pressure.

Melissa is now moving across the Atlantic Ocean as a category 2 hurricane, and is now pushing closely towards the Bermuda ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines and left even more people missing as it moved on to slam ...

This late-season surprise behemoth went beyond 'extreme' rapid intensification and now ties Katrina and Andrew as the 10th strongest hurricane ever recorded.

There were a number of major hurricanes that formed in the Atlantic Ocean this season. Only Hurricane Melissa made landfall, ...

Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, ...