SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Melissa plodded through the central Caribbean early Friday, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane ...

Tropical Storm Melissa continues to spin in the central Caribbean Sea and is showing no signs of letting up. The National Hurricane Center said in an 2 p.m. ET advisory on Oct. 23 that Melissa is ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa was nearly stationary in the central Caribbean on Friday, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center and the 10 Tampa Bay Weather Team are continuing to track Tropical Storm Melissa as it drifts slowly north in the central Caribbean. As of the 8 a.m.

Tropical Storm Melissa is the 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. That may be a surprising fact for many readers. Most of those storms have not impacted the U.S. mainland or made ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is still a couple of hundred miles southeast of Jamaica, moving at 5 mph, with wind speeds around 50 mph. Melissa is expected to strengthen into a hurricane early on Saturday, ...

Tropical Storm Melissa formed in the central Caribbean on Tuesday, Oct. 21, and is expected to strengthen, according to the National Hurricane Center. Melissa is the 13th named storm of the 2025 ...

The storm does not pose a threat to Florida or the Tampa Bay area. Federal forecasters are monitoring Tropical Storm Melissa, which is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane Monday near Jamaica ...

Editor's Note: Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 5 storm. See the latest update for Monday, Oct. 27. Melissa intensified into a hurricane on Saturday, Oct. 25, as it continued its slow slog across ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to meander the Caribbean at an agonizingly slow pace in the coming days, even as it’s forecast to strengthen into a hurricane, covering as little as 2 miles in an ...

At this point, no long-range models are suggesting Melissa could be a serious threat to Florida. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City.