Hurricane Melissa went through rapid intensification on Saturday, jumping from a Category 2 to a Category 4 by early Sunday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Melissa strengthened Sunday into a Category 4 storm and could potentially intensify even more as it is projected to bring torrential rain and catastrophic flooding to Jamaica and Haiti.

he current track shows Melissa becoming a hurricane on Saturday and a major hurricane on Sunday --and then undergoing rapid strengthening through Monday becoming a Category 4. Additional strengthening ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to strengthen into a hurricane, threatening the northern Caribbean with massive rainfall and life-threatening flooding. The storm has already killed at least ...

Editor's Note: Hurricane Melissa continues on its path. See the latest update for Wednesday, Oct. 29. Hurricane Melissa continued to wreak a punishing path of damaging winds and rain across the island ...

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 4 storm on Saturday. It unleashed torrential rain and threatened to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica, ...

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 with ...

Hurricane Melissa approached Jamaica early Tuesday, a monstrous Category 5 storm packing devastating winds and torrential rains as the strongest storm ever to impact the Caribbean island. While ...