Melissa slammed Jamaica with 185 miles per hour winds on Tuesday, as the strongest hurricane to ever hit the Caribbean island. Officials reported heavy flooding, destroyed homes and buildings, downed ...

Melissa’s terrifying trip through the Caribbean also piled on evidence of the influence of a warming ocean on an evolving ...

Editor's note: Follow Melissa's latest forecast and path track in USA TODAY's coverage on Saturday, Oct. 25. On the afternoon of Friday Oct. 24, Tropical Storm Melissa continues to spin in the central ...

Jamaica is bracing for Melissa, currently a Category 5 hurricane, to make landfall Tuesday morning on the island.

Editor's note: Track the latest forecasts for Hurricane Melissa with USA TODAY's storm tracker for Saturday, Oct. 25. The National Hurricane Center reports Melissa has strengthened into a hurricane in ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is the 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. That may be a surprising fact for many readers. Most of those storms have not impacted the U.S. mainland or made ...

Melissa rapidly intensified over the weekend and is now a rare Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center expects it to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday morning as the ...

Matthew Cappucci, a meteorologist for The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang, was caught on camera vomiting while flying ...