Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the Caribbean island of Jamaica on Tuesday, Oct. 28, as a Category 5 storm with sustained ...

Melissa is forecast to become the first Category 5 landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Dorian roared into the Bahamas in 2019. There have been 32 Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic since the use ...

Rita ultimately swerved and missed the city at the eleventh hour. But it left behind a nightmare 20 years ago that traumatized survivors and spurred statewide hurricane policy changes. Local and state ...

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...