Melissa was inching toward Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane early Tuesday -- the strongest a hurricane can get -- and was expected to bring "catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge" to ...

(AP) — They are the hurricanes of legend, the bowling balls that cross the entire Atlantic Ocean, menaced ships of yore and make the long, curved lines on the hurricane charts. Cape Verde storms, ...

One example is 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which was listed as a Category 3 based on wind speeds. But storm surge and rainfall were responsible for most of the 1,800 deaths caused by Katrina and ...

Over the same time period just five years ago, in 2020, there had been more than double the number of storms compared to what we've seen so far this year. It "only takes one," though, to make ...