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Hurricane Melissa has begun its slow march towards Jamaica, and it is now one of the top 10 strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. As of the 2 p.m. update by the NOAA National Hurricane Center, ...

The Atlantic hurricane season will go down in history as one of the strangest. It might seem like a fortunate flop with no U.S. landfalls, but several storms were extremely powerful.

Hours from landfall, Hurricane Melissa is also slow moving like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which could mean catastrophic flooding. By Judson Jones Reporter and meteorologist Hurricane Melissa is only ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Hurricane Melissa lashed Jamaica with violent winds, destructive storm surge and relentless rainfall this week, coming ashore as one of the strongest hurricanes on Atlantic record.

Hurricane Melissa put on a rare show overnight, tipping the scales as a Category 5 hurricane by the predawn hours Monday while drifting only about 100 miles south of Jamaica over the deep, warm waters ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday afternoon in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. Hurricane Melissa is one for the record books and continues ...

As Hurricane Melissa neared the Jamaican coast, winds in the spiraling wall of clouds around its eye gusted to almost unimaginable speeds. How fast? Faster than most tornadoes. Faster than a race car ...

Twenty years ago this week, back in 2005, Hurricane Wilma was raging across the Caribbean Sea, and bringing devastating impacts to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Afterwards, Wilma would turn ...