Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, outstripping 2005's Hurricane Katrina with higher wind speeds and lower pressure, according to The New York Times.

MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, leaving destruction across the Gulf Coast and changing New Orleans forever. Dr. Courtney Jackson, who was 19 at the time ...

Melissa is forecast to become the first Category 5 landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Dorian roared into the Bahamas in 2019. There have been 32 Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic since the use ...

Hours from landfall, Hurricane Melissa is also slow moving like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which could mean catastrophic ...

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...

A flooded neighborhood east of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 30, 2005 - Dave Einsel/Getty Images This week brings a somber anniversary for the Gulf Coast: It was on August 29, 2005, that ...