How do hurricanes get named? Hurricanes, aka tropical cyclones, are powerful storms that form over warm ocean waters and can cause serious damage. When you hear about the name of a new hurricane on the news,

Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, intensified rapidly, then stalled near the coast.

As Hurricane Melissa crosses over Jamaica with record-breaking winds and rain, these webcams show what happens as long as power holds out.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall along Jamaica's southwestern coast Tuesday as an extremely powerful Category 5 storm.

BUXTON, N.C. (WNCN) — The videos from the past few days of houses collapsing and falling into the water along the Outer Banks have been everywhere, but hurricanes Imelda and Humberto were hundreds of miles away from North Carolina. How did they play a ...

Turbulence got so bad that the Air Force Reserve's Hurricane Hunters were forced to cut short their daring trip and head back to base early.

A complex weather dance is underway in the central Atlantic Ocean this week as a pair of developing tropical systems try to get their act together. “There are two tropical waves moving through the Atlantic that may develop this week," said AccuWeather ...

Hurricane Melissa pummeled areas of the Caribbean already vulnerable to landslides and flash flooding — made worse by decades of deforestation — with risks likely to continue for days, experts said