As Category 5 hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica, it is poised to be the worst storm to ever hit the Caribbean island, surpassing the damage from Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Gilbert, which hit ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Hurricane Melissa has torn through Jamaica as a Category 5 storm which is the strongest level on the hurricane scale and the strongest the island has ever seen. Locals from the ...

Jamaica residents are bracing themselves for potentially the most devastating storm to ever hit the nation. Hurricane Melissa is threatening to unleash catastrophic flooding, deadly landslides and ...

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a powerful Category 5 storm on Monday (local time) as Jamaica braces to witness its potentially worst hurricane ever since record-keeping started in 1851. Melissa’s ...

Jamaican officials urged residents to brace for Hurricane Melissa as it tracked toward the island at Category 5 strength, packing intense rains and winds and threatening to cause widespread ...

Direct landfalls from big hurricanes are rare for Jamaica. Melissa could pummel the island as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane, forecasters said. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter ...