Human-caused climate change is making major hurricanes like Melissa much stronger, faster and ultimately more life-threatening ...

Hurricane Melissa is approaching Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds. A recent study suggests global warming is fueling more intense and rapidly strengthening hurricanes. Scientists have ...

Melissa’s sustained winds reached 185 mph at landfall in Jamaica. Only a handful of Atlantic hurricanes have reached such speeds.

The development of 13 storms makes for a pretty normal year, though most hurricanes developed into major hurricanes above 111 mph.

An unprecedented 60% percent of this season’s five hurricanes reached Category 5 status. Here's what that means ...

Storm after storm missed the U.S. in a season that forecasters feared could have been far worse. But many storms that missed ...

Thought Category 5 was as bad as a hurricane could get? Think again. As Hurricane Melissa barrels off into the Atlantic after devastating Jamaica and Cuba, some scientists say the age of Category 6 ...

The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, according to an update from the National ...