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While this footage may look like a scene from an epic disaster movie, it’s not! It captures the terrifying reality that the people of Westmoreland, Jamaica, had to face. "Hurricane Melissa passing ...

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On Friday hurricane-force winds returned to the Boulder area. It was just two days after a similar wind event battered the Colorado city. Timothy Mendez knows just how bad this week of wind has been.

Cars stalled at dead traffic lights, unlit stores turned customers away, and downed trees littered lawns and public spaces across Bozeman on Friday. Towering timbers, like an aging arbor rooted in the ...

“Dropsondes are small cylindrical devices that are used by organizations like NOAA to collect valuable information during extreme weather events like hurricanes or atmospheric rivers," an NSF NCAR ...

Hurricane Melissa first flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane on Oct. 28 with sustained winds of 185 mph and even stronger gusts. Melissa then barreled over ...

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Melissa unleashed a fury of Category 5 winds as it approached Jamaica in October, and experts now confirm it produced the strongest gust ever recorded by NOAA Hurricane Hunters.

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

Sleep has become a public culture priority. The sleep industry now exceeds $68 billion. Nearly half of adults report insomnia symptoms at some point. Chronic insomnia means difficulty falling or ...