According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...
The storm has intensified to Category 5 with sustained winds exceeding 250km/h, making it the strongest hurricane in recorded ...
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday with catastrophic winds and the potential for widespread flooding and landslides. The Category 5 storm is one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ...
Hurricane Melissa barreled through the Caribbean on Wednesday after thrashing Cuba’s second-biggest city, isolating hundreds ...
Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours ...
At least three people have been killed in Jamaica and more elsewhere in the Caribbean during the most powerful storm on the ...
September is the typical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, when we usually see the most activity. But that doesn't mean we can discount October, as some of the most historic storms have occurred ...
USAID was the lead American agency in disaster response. Now that it's been dismantled, questions are arising about how ...
Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put New Orleans under water for weeks, the unthinkable happened: An even ...