• Moving north: Melissa has restrengthened into a Category 4 hurricane as it churns toward Cuba after making a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. For ...

• Strongest storm this year: Melissa rapidly intensified over the weekend and continues to strengthen. The rare Category 5 has winds of 175 mph, with stronger gusts, making it the strongest storm on ...

(CNN) — The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer. By the time Hurricane Melissa roared ashore Tuesday, that uber-warm Caribbean Sea had helped turn it into a monster: a Category 5 storm ...