Hurricane Melissa became a major hurricane Saturday night and is on track to be a Category 5 storm near Jamaica. The 11 pm advisory from the National Hurricane Center had increased winds of 115 mph, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of weather systems have contributed to heavy rain and dangerous surf across parts of the Southeast, especially in Florida ...

MIAMI — The Atlantic hurricane season, which draws to an official close on Sunday, fulfilled forecasts it would be an active year. There were 13 named storms and three Category 5 hurricanes. But, for ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica as a fearsome Category 5 storm, bringing heavy floodwaters across the country's southwest and catastrophic winds that tore roofs off buildings. The ...

Melissa has officially become a hurricane, and it’s expected to continue to intensify during the next 24 hours. Wind shear has decreased significantly, allowing the storm to become vertically stacked; ...

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Tropical Storm Melissa continued to struggle early Thursday as it crawled several hundred miles south of Jamaica and Haiti over the central Caribbean. Satellite data and Air Force Hurricane Hunters ...

A series of weather systems have contributed to heavy rain and dangerous surf across parts of the Southeast, especially in Florida, but the well-timed systems also are part of a weather pattern that's ...