Hurricanes need warm ocean water to form, and water temperatures in a key section of the Atlantic are really starting to warm up. "One of the biggest changes I’ve observed in recent weeks is a ...

MILWAUKEE - As Hurricane Melissa roars through the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm, its winds of 160 mph and pressure near 917 millibars make it one of the most intense late-season hurricanes on ...

My worry for the 2025 hurricane season was what I labeled early-on as an “incendiary” mix of more frequent and extreme weather events with a degraded ability to save life and property. With the end of ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Hurricane Melissa is currently 80-miles southeast of the central Bahamas and 890-miles southwest from Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 90-mph. Its hurricane-force winds ...

Hurricane Melissa set a new world record for the highest wind gust ever recorded at 252 mph. The storm made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least 90 people. Melissa's path ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Ethan Murray is a postdoctoral researcher at NOAA's ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Cuba early Wednesday with catastrophic winds, flash flooding and storm surge expected on the island, forecasters said. The destructive hurricane hit Jamaica Tuesday ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba as a Category 2 storm after hitting Jamaica as a Category 5. The hurricane is not a threat to Florida or the U.S. as it moves northeast toward the Bahamas.