Article last updated: Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, 5 p.m. ET

Hurricane Melissa roared into Montego Bay in Jamaica, leaving behind severe damage captured in a series of videos on social media. The hurricane was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall in Jamaica before weakening slightly and heading toward Cuba on October 28. Videos showed flooding in Montego ...

Article last updated: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 1 a.m. ET

A hurricane is a type of tropical system that forms either in the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, on either side of North America. These storms can range in size from small tropical wind storms to massive hurricanes. There are three steps to categorizing a ...

As of Sunday, Hurricane Dorian was classified as a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 mph and gusts, forecasters say, that could reach an astonishing 220 mph. The National Hurricane Center ranks tropical cyclones, or hurricanes, as category 1-5 ...

The National Hurricane Center's 1 p.m. Tuesday advisory reported that Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is in the Caribbean Sea, 55 miles south-southeast of Negril Jamaica and 265 miles southwest of Guantanamo Cuba. With maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, the hurricane is moving to the north-northeast at 7 mph.

Melissa is now a Category 1 moving through the Bahamas after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.