Hurricane Melissa is now a powerful Category 5 storm. Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is bearing down on Jamaica and is forecast to be the worst storm in the island's history.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread ...

Melissa directly hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the nation.

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Officials are evacuating hundreds of Alaskans after a powerful storm system hammered the state’s western coast this week, in what the National Guard described as one of the largest airlifts in the ...