Melissa's top winds of 185 mph are the second-strongest ever reported in an Atlantic hurricane. The storm ties for the strongest storm to hit land, along with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which ...

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to become a Category 5 storm, threatening islands in the northern Caribbean. The storm is expected to move near or over Jamaica, southeastern Cuba, and the southeastern ...

The NHC said in its advisory on the storm: “A Hurricane Watch has been issued for the southern peninsula of Haiti from the border with the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince. The government of ...

Spaghetti models for Tropical Storm Melissa. See expected path. Special note about spaghetti models: Spaghetti model illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, a ...

Should another weather system develop into a tropical storm, the system would be named Melissa. The USA TODAY Network in Florida provides daily tropics watch reports during hurricane season (June ...

Melissa developed into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday, Oct. 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern Caribbean.