On Today's Date: Hurricane Patricia Smashes Global Wind Record

An Eastern Pacific hurricane set a global and hemispheric record 10 years ago. But its impact in Mexico was refreshingly ...

Race Against the Clock: Jamaica Pushes Post-Melissa Recovery To Salvage Crucial Winter Tourism Season

After Hurricane Melissa caused widespread damage across western Jamaica, the country is racing to restore its tourism sector.

Does Hurricane Melissa Show It’s Time for a Category 6 Designation?

When Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica on October 28, it showed just how devastatingly powerful a Category 5 hurricane ...

Melissa becomes the third strongest storm in Atlantic history

Melissa is now tied with the second strongest storm in Atlantic Basin history between 2024 and 1842. The strongest hurricane ...
Scientific American

Is It Time to Classify Hurricanes as Category 6?

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new ...

Hurricane Melissa latest storm to hit Category 5 in days. What is rapid intensification?

Hurricane Melissa on Monday became the third Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2025, and all of them surged up within days/ ...

Four deaths from Hurricane Melissa confirmed in Jamaica as storm leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

Four people are confirmed dead in Jamaica while at least 20 others have died in Haiti in flooding as a result of Hurricane Melissa The hurricane made landfall on Tuesday as a category five storm in ...

5 Ways to Help Those Affected by Hurricane Melissa

This health-focused nonprofit, founded in 1979, is deploying emergency resources to Jamaica and offering assistance to ...
MySuncoast.com

Hurricane Melissa shatters records as strongest storm to hit Jamaica

JAMAICA, Fla. ( WWSB) - Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as the strongest hurricane ever recorded to hit the island, shattering multiple records that had stood for decades.