• Strongest storm this year: Melissa is strengthening before landfall, is now a 180 mph Category 5, and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. Such bouts of intensification are becoming ...

• Moving north: Melissa is an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane as it closes in on Cuba, the National Hurricane Center warned, after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of ...

(CNN) — Melissa rapidly intensified over the weekend and is now a rare Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center expects it to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday morning ...