State officials recently expanded a drought watch advisory to include 50 Virginia counties and 23 cities. Locally, ...

The Category 1 hurricane’s fingerprints were on the deadly and destructive flooding 40 years ago this week, but the atmospheric setup that yielded the worst river flooding on record at Roanoke and ...

FAIRFAX, Virginia — First responders from across Virginia have been activated by the State Department to respond to Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Virginia Task Force 1 is sending a 34 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach woman says she and her husband are still stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa severely damaged their resort. Shari Watts-Ankeny, who flew to Montego Bay ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hurricane Melissa became a catastrophic Category 5 storm, and at its strongest, reached maximum sustained winds of 185 mph on Tuesday. This ties Melissa for the 2nd strongest on ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Hurricane Melissa became a record-breaking storm Tuesday as it made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica. At its strongest, the storm reached winds of 185 miles per hour with a central ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The website reads: “Water flows through, under and around Sandals South Coast.” Those features were just what three families had in mind for their annual October trip to the ...

SEES THE SHUTDOWN WILL LAST. BUT WE BEGIN OUR 9:00 HOUR WITH BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. HURRICANE MELISSA WAS GRINDING ACROSS CUBA AS A CATEGORY TWO STORM AFTER GOING THROUGH JAMAICA AS ONE OF THE ...

Hurricane Melissa has joined a list of only about a dozen other Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the Atlantic. The deadly Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica's southwestern coast ...

NOAA and Air Force Hurricane Hunters found that Hurricane Melissa has strengthened further this morning, reaching a minimum pressure of 892 mb and maximum sustained winds of 185 mph on approach to ...