Category 5 Hurricane Melissa sped up early Tuesday, Oct. 28, making landfall in Jamaica in the early afternoon, before making a second landfall in Cuba early Wednesday, Oct. 29. Torrential downpours ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a violent Category 5 cyclone. The hurricane had a wind speed of 185 mph when it made landfall on the island's southwestern coast on Tuesday, Oct. 28.

The monster storm strengthened Tuesday before hitting Jamaica, bringing with it maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 kph). It’s the strongest Atlantic hurricane to make landfall since Hurricane ...

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded — with the United Nations declaring the disaster “the storm of the century.” Melissa smashed into Jamaica’s ...

Imagine you’re flying inside the eye of a hurricane and you behold the towering, swirling clouds of our planet’s most explosive force of nature right before your eyes. From June through November each ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest ever recorded in the nation's history. Melissa is tied for the strongest Atlantic-basin landfall by wind ...