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 ...

“Dropsondes are small cylindrical devices that are used by organizations like NOAA to collect valuable information during extreme weather events like hurricanes or atmospheric rivers," an NSF NCAR ...

Hurricane Melissa will go down as one of the worst hurricanes ever in the Atlantic Ocean, with the hurricane reaching a strength that only a handful of storms have achieved in recorded history.

Hurricane Melissa flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Cat 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 mph and stronger gusts.

Hurricane Milton is approaching Florida as a Category 4 storm with sustained maximum winds of around 155 mph. It is expected to weaken before it hits, likely becoming a strong Category 3 at the time ...

Hurricane Melissa was already one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean—and now scientists have confirmed a new way it neared superlative status. Newly released data show ...

Britain and Ireland braced Sunday for a lashing from Ophelia, the largest hurricane ever recorded so far east in the Atlantic Ocean, after it dumped heavy rains on Portugals Azores islands. As the ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

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 ...