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 ...

Heartbreak led to a mission. That sparked the creation of a foundation, since that’s something you build upon, and then she asked some friends to help her. When Grammy Award-winning rocker Melissa ...

In the ruins of Black River, which the Jamaican government has described as Hurricane Melissa's "ground zero," people are scrambling for relief. "People are hungry," said Monique Powell as she stood ...

Tossed and battered by violent wind and severe turbulence, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of ...

A lifelong Jewish Democrat says he is committing to consequences before Mamdani’s supporters can try to win him back. There must be consequences when politicians endorse and campaign for unpalatable ...

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 ...

DIED ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN. AND MELISSA WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST TROPICAL CYCLONES EVER RECORDED IN THE ATLANTIC. PEAK WINDS NEARLY DOUBLED IN INTENSITY IN JUST 24 HOURS OVER THE WEEKEND. METEOROLOGIST ...

Editor's note: This page summarizes news on Hurricane Melissa for Wednesday, Oct. 29. For the latest on Hurricane Melissa, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Thursday, Oct. 30. Hurricane Melissa weakened ...

Editor’s note (Oct 29th 2025): Melissa has now crossed Jamaica and Cuba, where warnings of flash flooding and landslides remain in effect. It has weakened and is heading towards the Bahamas. It is the ...

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 ...