Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded — with the United Nations declaring the disaster “the storm of the century.” Melissa smashed into Jamaica’s ...

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 ...

“Dropsondes are small cylindrical devices that are used by organizations like NOAA to collect valuable information during extreme weather events like hurricanes or atmospheric rivers," an NSF NCAR ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest ever recorded in the nation's history. Melissa is tied for the strongest Atlantic-basin landfall by wind ...

A record-breaking 252-mph wind reading measured by a dropsonde launched from an NOAA Hurricane Hunter airplane during a mission into Hurricane Melissa has been verified, making it the strongest wind ...