Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With no hurricane landfalls in the United States so far, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has felt tame. It feels all the more ...

On 27 October 2025 the storm identified as Hurricane Melissa, a rapidly strengthening hurricane, is closing in on Jamaica. It carries the potential to unleash 'catastrophic' rain, ferocious winds and ...

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 ...

Hurricanes are measured many ways: death toll, in buildings destroyed, billions of dollars in damage or days of power outages. But even before any of those likely horrifying figures are known for ...

Hurricane Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Dominican Republic. It was a high-end Category 5 hurricane, and one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall around 1 p.m. ET Tuesday near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane made landfall with sustained winds at ...