The global sustained wind speed record happened more recently. Hurricane Patricia reached maximum sustained winds of 215 mph off the coast of southwest Mexico in October 2015. It was also just 2 ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with wind speeds of up to 185 miles per hour.

Further tropical development is unlikely this hurricane season. A wintertime weather pattern has settled over the Gulf, the ...

Hurricane Melissa is gathering strength as it barrels towards Jamaica. It is being called "among the strongest hurricanes ...

The storm has grown to one of the Atlantic's strongest on record, and is threatening to be the Atlantic's first Category 5 landfall since 2019.

Hurricane Melissa, currently the most potent storm globally in 2025, has been reported by CNN meteorologists and correspondents.

Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall in Jamaica Tuesday, bringing severe winds and flooding. For survivors, the ...

Melissa is the fifth-most intense Atlantic basin hurricane on record by pressure and the strongest such hurricane to make landfall since Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

Hurricane Melissa is continuing to intensify as the eye of the monster storm approaches the southwestern coast of Jamaica, with forecasters saying winds within the Category 5 hurricane have increased ...