Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, forecasters warn. While both storms reached sustained winds of 175 mph at their peak, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm.

The story of Atlantic hurricanes is treading a familiar — and frightening — path: Climate change is fueling huge, slow-moving, rain-drenching storms.

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

For a Category 5, this means speeds above 252 kilometers per hour (157 miles per hour). According to the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) latest report, Melissa’s current maximum sustained wind speed ...

Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are all the same tropical storms, distinguished only by their geographical formation.

Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 48 hours, with wind speeds of 185 mph, before weakening to a Category 2 and moving into the middle of ...