Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm with top winds of 185mph, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

The world’s strongest storm of the year has torn through Jamaica with 185mph winds and flash flooding, causing widespread devastation. Whole towns have been left underwater, one of the island’s ...

The Category 5 storm, which left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, stunned forecasters and meteorologists, ...

Tens of thousands of Jamaicans were in shelters, and more than two-thirds of the island was still without power, according to officials.

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 ...

The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall over Jamaica was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, a Category 4 hurricane, with ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and ...