When does a tropical depression become a tropical storm? And when does a tropical storm become a hurricane? What's the difference between a Category 1 and a Category 3 hurricane? It's all about ...

The difference in wind speed from the center of Hurricane Melissa in western Jamaica and the outer part of the storm in Kingston was like the difference between a Category 5 hurricane and a tropical ...

There have been some truly devastating hurricanes over the years. These, however, were the most damaging hurricanes of all time.

On Sunday afternoon, Hurricane Gabrielle formed in the Atlantic. National Hurricane Center forecasters said at 5 a.m. Monday that its maximum wind speed was 90 mph but they expected it to strengthen ...

Hurricane Melissa headed to eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm Wednesday after bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall to Jamaica, where it made landfall as a Category 5 storm Tuesday. Authorities ...

When Melissa grew from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane, it became the fourth of this year’s five Atlantic hurricanes to undergo what hurricane experts call “rapid intensification ...

A powerful hurricane is barreling toward Jamaica with anticipation that it will be the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in modern history. Hurricane Melissa began rapidly intensifying over ...

Hurricane Melissa has joined a list of only about a dozen other Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the Atlantic. The deadly Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica's southwestern coast ...