See how Hurricane Melissa, among strongest on record, compares with historic storms

Melissa is among three Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall with 185 mph winds. Another storm to do so was the Labor Day ...

Tracking Hurricane Melissa: Maps, spaghetti models and paths

Here are the latest maps, spaghetti models and projected paths for Hurricane Melissa. The images below update automatically.
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What is minimum central pressure, and how does it measure hurricane power?

When we talk about hurricanes, the first number you usually hear is wind speed. That makes sense. Wind is what tears off ...

Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms on record in the Atlantic. How it ranks

The Category 5 storm made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph ...

Where does Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa rank among the strongest storms ever?

The strongest Atlantic storm on record was 2005’s Hurricane Wilma, with an all-time-low pressure of 882 mb. It hit that peak at sea while it was a Category 5. But it made landfall in Florida as a ...

Is Melissa a Category 6 hurricane? What to know about the Saffir-Simpson scale

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...