Hurricane Melissa caused nearly $9 billion in damage in Jamaica, making it the costliest storm ever to hit the island nation, according to newly released figures.

The preliminary estimate was released Wednesday as part of an assessment by the World Bank, in coordination with the Inter-American Development Bank. The storm’s $8.8 billion in ...Read more

L.A. County was facing a chance of thunderstorms, strong winds that could topple trees and downpours Monday evening as another storm moved through Southern California following a weekend of sometimes heavy rain.

The National Weather Service warned that thunderstorms were likely as the storm system pushed through Los Angeles. A flash flood ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This weekend’s atmospheric river uprooted trees, caked roads in mud and sent toxic runoff flowing into the ocean, but nowhere got quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara, which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county’s recorded history.

According to data from the National Weather Service, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The most powerful band of a large atmospheric river storm slammed into Southern California Saturday, dumping much-needed rain across the region but also bringing mudslide dangers to communities still reeling from last January’s firestorms.

The storm flooded some streets and highways, sent mud and rocks sliding onto some canyon...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is just about over, with no tropical systems likely to develop before its official close on Nov. 30.

It might seem like a fortunate flop — only five hurricanes, when most forecasts back in spring called for eight or nine.

It was actually “pretty hopping,” said University of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California will be under a severe weather threat Saturday, with the most powerful wave of an incoming atmospheric river storm peaking over the weekend in Los Angeles County and bringing a risk of mudflows, debris flows and, possibly, a tornado.

If rain falls as forecast, this storm could result in downtown Los Angeles ...Read more

A father and daughter on a humanitarian mission to Jamaica were killed when their twin-engine plane crashed in Coral Springs, Florida, according to an evangelical Christian ministry.

Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter, Serena, 22, were traveling to deliver aid to communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa when their small plane went down ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two people are dead after a small plane that was bound for Jamaica for Hurricane Melissa relief efforts crashed into a lake behind a home in a Coral Springs gated community on Monday morning, officials said.

The 1976 Beech B100 aircraft, an 11-seat, multi-engine plane, took off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport ...Read more

CHICAGO — As a frigid air mass descends upon the central U.S., intense lake-effect snow is expected to hit the Chicago area late Sunday night into Monday as temperatures drop into the 30s, according to forecasters.

The season’s first winter storm watch would remain in effect from late Sunday night into Monday, bringing with it the area’s ...Read more

The United Nations is launching a $74 million action plan to assist 1 million Cubans affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastating impact on the island’s eastern provinces.

When it was clear that Melissa was going to hit the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Las Tunas, Guantánamo and Holguín as a powerful Category 3 storm, the U.N. aid...Read more

Tons of donations packed and shipped from Miami have been arriving in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated much of the island, leaving at least 32 dead and over a million people desperate for food and water.

But it’s not enough.

“It’s a Hurricane Maria, an Irma and a Dorian all compounded,” said Michael Capponi, the CEO of Miami-...Read more

Montego Bay’s international airport opened with a reduced capacity over the weekend, even as the U.S. State Department warned Americans to “reconsider travel” to Jamaica.

The Caribbean nation slowly started the long recovery from the worst hurricane to hit Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 at on Oct. 28 in New Hope,...Read more

The U.S. State Department said it is coordinating with the Catholic Church to send $3 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba after Hurricane Melissa ravaged several provinces on the island’s eastern region.

“The United States is coordinating with the Catholic Church the distribution of $3 million in humanitarian assistance directly to those in...Read more

MIAMI — As Jamaica slowly recovers from the most catastrophic hurricane to hit the country, more than two dozen Floridians stranded there have been rescued and returned home Saturday afternoon, officials said.

Hurricane Melissa killed at least 19 people in Jamaica and left thousands in the country without power, water or internet. It leveled ...Read more

At least 19 people have lost their lives in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa, which battered the island this week as the most powerful storm to ever hit the Caribbean nation.

Sen. Dana Morris Dixon, Jamaica’s information minister, said Friday that the toll is almost certain to rise. “We’re still at 19 confirmed. But we do expect that that ...Read more

Rescue operations and urgent evacuations continued in Cuba on Friday, as people remained trapped by severe flooding left by the torrential rains from Hurricane Melissa on rural areas and towns across the affected provinces on the eastern end of the island.

Cuban state television reporter Lázaro Manuel Alonso said emergency evacuations were ...Read more

As Hurricane Melissa sweeps past Bermuda into the North Atlantic, new satellite data of Jamaica has revealed devastation for tourist center Montego Bay and much of the Western part of the country.

At least 40% of the buildings and roads in the worst-hit areas on the island were severely damaged, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of ...Read more

The death toll from Hurricane Melissa in Haiti continued to climb Thursday, with authorities saying that at least 30 people are now dead and 20 others are missing.

The biggest toll occurred in the country’s gang-ridden West region, when a swollen Digue River overflowed its banks and caused widespread flooding in the coastal town of Petit-Goâ...Read more

Thousands of Jamaicans were still without power, water and internet service on Thursday as the government continued to assess the widespread damage from Hurricane Melissa.

Days after the hit from Jamaica’s most catastrophic hurricane, the scope of the damages are becoming more clear. Aerial images reveal razed neighborhoods and trees without ...Read more