Melissa was inching toward Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane early Tuesday -- the strongest a hurricane can get -- and was expected to bring "catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge" to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – With Hurricane Melissa's rapid intensification, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes, which hasn't happened in a single season for 20 years.

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Here are the latest maps, spaghetti models and projected paths for Hurricane Melissa. The images below update automatically. Hurricane Melissa will go down in the record books for Atlantic hurricanes.

Hurricane Melissa is now among the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record. The monster storm strengthened Tuesday before hitting Jamaica, bringing with it maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 ...

Hurricane Alex defied the odds to become one of just eight storms known to swirl over the Atlantic in the month of January ...

Hurricane Melissa will sweep through Cuba, the Bahamas and Bermuda with strong winds, heavy rain and rough seas in the coming days following its historic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica. The ...