Jamaica is bracing for what could be its worst hurricane in recorded history, per USA Today. As of Monday (October 27) at 11 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Melissa, now a ...

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The streets of Jamaica's capital, Kingston, were largely empty on Tuesday morning as the country prepared for the worst storm in its history to make landfall, where it is forecast to cause ...

Hurricane Melissa has torn through Jamaica as a Category 5 storm which is the strongest level on the hurricane scale and the strongest the island has ever seen. Locals from the Capital Region are ...

The NWS has said the storm was one of the most unique and damaging winter storms on record, with blizzard conditions, ...

The figures, released through the World Bank’s Global Rapid Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology, highlight the enormous scale of destruction and underscore the urgency of a coordinated national and ...

As Category 5 hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica, it is poised to be the worst storm to ever hit the Caribbean island, surpassing the damage from Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Gilbert, which hit ...

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.

Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, October 28, was one of strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the Atlantic Ocean ever recorded. And it was supercharged by the effects ...

Brian Bogart of the UN World Food Programme's Caribbean office warns we’re "looking down the barrel of what may be the worst natural disaster in Jamaica’s history." ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Hurricane Melissa has torn through Jamaica as a Category 5 storm which is the strongest level on the hurricane scale and the strongest the island has ever seen. Locals from the ...

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.