Conditions remain quiet in the tropics, with no activity expected for the next seven days. But don't let your guard down yet.

Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, outstripping 2005's Hurricane Katrina with higher wind speeds and lower pressure, according to The New York Times.

The hurricane that tore through the Caribbean this week broke records, rapidly intensifying and surprising some ...

When Melissa came ashore, it tied strength records for Atlantic hurricanes making landfall, both in wind speed and barometric ...

Hurricane Melissa barreled through the northern Caribbean on Wednesday after thrashing Cuba's second-biggest city, isolating ...

The scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa is emerging, with dozens of people known to have died in Haiti and ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated as Hurricane Melissa, now a category 2 storm, churns across Cuba. So how ...

Finally, sea-levels are rising, mainly due to a combination of melting glaciers and ice sheets, and the fact that warmer ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dana Sacchetti, the head of the World Food Programme in Jamaica, about how aid organizations will help residents recover from Hurricane Melissa.

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Hurricane Melissa, which is stronger than Hurricane Katrina, is set to bring catastrophic winds, flash flooding and high ...