The USDA’s announcement of an additional $16 billion in disaster relief under the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) marks a significant federal intervention intended to stabilize the sector ...

Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this week.

Koto was a tropical storm in the South China Sea Monday afternoon Indochina Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in ...

Satellite imagery tracked Hurricane Melissa as it bore down on Jamaica over a roughly 24-hour period from Monday, October 27, into Tuesday, October 28. The Cooperative Institute for Research in the ...

ATLANTA — Hurricane Melissa shattered records as it approached Jamaica last month. A dropsonde weather instrument from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft measured a 252 mph wind gust before reaching the ...

Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica when it made landfall on Tuesday. Satellite images show the extent of damage the island sustained. The deadly hurricane has left more than half a million people in ...

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in south-western Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon, packing winds of 185 mph. It was the strongest hurricane to make landfall on the island since ...

The verified wind reading is just another record-breaker associated with Hurricane Melissa, a deadly category 5 monster ...