Tropical Storm Melissa has matured into a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour (mph), according to the National Weather Service's (NWS) 5 p.m. forecast. And it's ...

Editor's note: Track the latest forecasts for Hurricane Melissa with USA TODAY's storm tracker for Saturday, Oct. 25. The National Hurricane Center reports Melissa has strengthened into a hurricane in ...

Melissa is the fifth most intense Atlantic basin hurricane on record by pressure and the strongest to make landfall since ...

A rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa is poised to deliver potentially devastating effects to Jamaica and eastern Cuba in the coming days, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday night. As of 8 ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is likely to undergo "rapid intensification" and grow into a powerful Category 4 hurricane. Will Melissa impact Florida? That's unclear at this time. What should you do? Stay ...

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...

Tropical Storm Melissa rapidly intensified into a major Category 3 hurricane on Saturday. The storm is expected to become a Category 5 hurricane and make landfall in Jamaica. Catastrophic flooding, ...

Over the same time period just five years ago, in 2020, there had been more than double the number of storms compared to what we've seen so far this year. It "only takes one," though, to make ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When hurricanes form over open water, there’s only one way to truly know their strength: flying straight into them. That’s the mission of the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather ...

In 1947, Project Cirrus attempted to weaken a hurricane with dry ice. Project STORMFURY later used silver iodide to try to disrupt hurricane eyewalls. Modification failed, but the research advanced ...

It’s a gorgeous Saturday morning in downtown Sarasota, with a gentle breeze and the sun glistening off calm bay waters dotted with pleasure boats — but down in the Caribbean, a storm that shares its ...

Weather experts are tracking when the next hurricane could impact the United States in October as the 2025 hurricane season does not end until the end of November. As Lorenzo develops as a tropical ...