This past week, Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Haiti and other parts of the Caribbean Basin. It came on land this past Tuesday in western Jamaica as a Category 5 storm ...

Ah, October: Pumpkins, falling leaves, Halloween decorations … and hurricanes? Yes, October is still hurricane season, and there have been no shortage of destructive, deadly storms in past Octobers.

As we're tracking Melissa, another Caribbean hurricane in 1998 became one of the deadliest on record in the Atlantic Basin. Twenty seven years ago this week, Hurricane Mitch first bottomed out at ...