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Three Category 5 Hurricanes In One Atlantic Season A First In 20 Years

These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare ...
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Hurricane Irma Strengthens Into Category 5, and Florida Braces for Possible Landfall

Hurricane Irma, fresh on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, strengthened early Tuesday into a Category 5 storm with maximum winds of 175 miles per hour, as Florida started to prepare for its ...

Cuba Is No Stranger to Hurricanes

In the last 25 years, a total of 10 major hurricanes have lashed the island. “Cuba is right in the center of things,” a ...
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Hurricane Melissa Live Updates: Category 5 Landfall Imminent As Jamaica Takes Cover

The storm has grown stronger than Katrina, and is threatening to be the Atlantic's first Category 5 landfall since 2019.

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 ...

What is the strongest hurricane ever recorded? Where Melissa places in the top 10

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has made landfall already in Jamaica and Cuba, as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make ...

John Morales on ‘infamous' Hurricane Melissa's destructive path and worrying trends

Melissa, now an infamous hurricane, will see its name retired by the World Meteorological Organization. It’s the third ...

Hurricane Humberto strengthens to Category 5, threatening Puerto Rico; another system takes aim at Carolinas

Hurricane Humberto has intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, and a separate storm system is targeting the southeastern U.S.