Heavy floodwaters swept across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore roofs off buildings, and boulders tumbled onto roads Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa pummeled the Caribbean island as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba early on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.Melissa hit...

GENEVA | Xinhua | The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday that Hurricane Melissa, the strongest tropical cyclone this year anywhere in the world, is expected to cause the worst storm impact of this century on Jamaica. The hurricane, a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall on Tuesday on Jamaica’s southwestern …

Hurricane Melissa regained strength on Tuesday as it moved away from Jamaica and headed toward Cuba, once again becoming a Category 4 storm. According to the US National Hurricane Center, the hurricane picked up speed over the Caribbean Sea, with maximum sustained winds reaching around 110 miles per hour, or 175 kilometers per hour.

Hurricane Melissa is grinding across eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

HAVANA | TASS | Hurricane Melissa, which earlier formed in the Atlantic Ocean, has weakened to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale and is gradually moving from Jamaica towards Cuba, the US National Hurricane Center said. As of 11:00 p.m. Moscow time on Tuesday (8:00 p.m. GMT), Melissa is ranked as a Category 4 hurricane …

Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm with top winds of 185mph, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

Melissa made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm with top winds of 185 mph, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, before weakening and moving on to Cuba.

Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday. A landslide blocked the main roads of Santa Cruz in Jamaica's St. Elizabeth parish, where the streets were reduced to mud pits.…

While a tropical storm warning has been discontinued for Jamaica, the country's government warned of the potential for "further flash flooding and additional landslides" through Wednesday night.