Hurricane Melissa set a new world record for the highest wind gust ever recorded at 252 mph. The storm made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least 90 people. Melissa's path ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The incredible 252 mph peak wind gust measured in Hurricane Melissa as it approached Jamaica was verified this week. That wind ...

A staggering new observation of Hurricane Melissa was confirmed this week: As the powerful storm was preparing to hit Jamaica in late October, a dropsonde — a probe launched out of the belly of a ...

Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released ...

Hurricane Melissa, which claimed at least 95 lives last fall, got an upgrade from the National Hurricane Center in a post-season review. As the record-breaking hurricane approached Jamaica, its ...

A paper authored by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) graduate student Zeb Leffler has been published in the Geophysical Research Letters. The student's master's research addresses a ...

As Hurricane Melissa neared the Jamaican coast, winds in the spiraling wall of clouds around its eye gusted to almost unimaginable speeds. How fast? Faster than most tornadoes. Faster than a race car ...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Local 10 News reporter Aaron Maybin is in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm. After making landfall, Melissa ...