Hurricane Melissa exploded Monday into a Category 5 monster, threatening more than 25 million people across Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. The powerful storm is expected to make landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning, though its outer bands had already begun unleashing fierce winds and rain on the island.

September 10 has historically been a calamitous date for the Sarasota, Florida area. Two major hurricanes, Donna in 1960 and Irma in 2017, made landfall or significantly impacted the region on this date. Other notable September 10 events include a 6.0 ...

The southern peninsula of Haiti remains under a hurricane watch, and all of Jamaica is under a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning. Both countries are forecast to see a tremendous amount of rain, enough to potentially spawn life-threatening mudslides and flash flooding in Haiti and the island of Hispaniola.

Officials reported a 2.5 magnitude earthquake in Howard County on Monday morning. Scientists say that the epicenter of the earthquake was east of Riverside. Hurricane Melissa becomes rare Category 5: Has DC seen a storm like that before?