Hurricane Melissa intensifies heading toward Caribbean islands

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to become a major hurricane on Sunday with catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in Haiti, ...
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News Wrap: Rapidly intensifying Melissa becomes a hurricane in the Caribbean

In our news wrap Saturday, meteorologists predict catastrophic flooding in Jamaica and Haiti as Hurricane Melissa gains ...

Hurricane Melissa forms, could reach Category 5, heads toward Jamaica. Florida update

Hurricane Melissa is on track to rapidly strenghten and could become a major Category 5 hurricane, according to the NHC, ...

Melissa strengthens into hurricane as Caribbean islands brace for impacts

Hurricane Melissa is expected to strengthen before possible landfall along the Caribbean Islands. WESH 2's award-winning ...

The Hurricane Hunters' only tragedy: Remembering the loss of Stormcloud Five 70 years ago

Just over 70 years ago, the only Hurricane Hunter plane to go down in the Atlantic basin crashed during Hurricane Janet. To this day, Hurricane Hunters brave the most severe storms to better help ...

Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensifying, forecast to become a rare Category 5

Melissa strengthened into a hurricane with 90 mph winds on Saturday as the US National Hurricane Center warned it would turn ...

Tropical Storm Melissa poised to become a hurricane and drop torrential rain on Caribbean

U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for Jamaica Saturday as Storm Melissa reached hurricane strength, threatening ...

Hurricane Melissa forecast to strengthen into Category 5 storm. See path.

The storm hit 75 mph winds to attain hurricane status on Saturday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said. A tropical ...