A storm that came through New Hampshire on Dec. 11, 2008, was not your typical winter storm. A system brought widespread rain ...

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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re mainly going to focus on one major story from last week: Hurricane Melissa. Here to ...

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 directly hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, making history as the most powerful hurricane ever to strike the island. The wind speeds were so extreme that NOAA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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