Recently released satellite imagery of Hurricane Melissa’s core reveals a handful of dizzying whirlpool-like features crowding its perfectly symmetric eye. The image, captured Tuesday when Melissa was ...
Hurricane Melissa will go down as one of the most powerful storms in history, with record-setting numbers upon landfall both for wind intensity and central pressure. The Category 5 hurricane is ...
A meteorologist had the rare opportunity to fly into the eye of a major hurricane. His bird's-eye view of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa left him horrified and humbled after staring into the inside of ...
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 ...
SUFFERED A MAJOR IMPACT AS MELISSA CONTINUES ON ITS PATH. WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF THIS MASSIVE STORM. OUR GRACE LOWE JOINS US LIVE IN THE STUDIO WITH A CLOSER LOOK AT THE STORM, AND ...
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 ...
Meteorologists confirmed this week that a wind gust recorded in Hurricane Melissa’s eyewall was the strongest ever measured by a Hurricane Hunters tool known as a dropsonde. The Category 5 storm ...