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 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, which formed over the Caribbean on Tuesday, is expected to bring lots of rain to the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, but its path beyond that isn't clear, the ...

Editor's note: Follow Melissa's latest forecast and path track in USA TODAY's coverage on Saturday, Oct. 25. Tropical Storm Melissa continues to spin in the Caribbean. At the same time, ...

MIAMI – Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) say Tropical Storm Melissa formed over the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea late Tuesday morning, prompting Hurricane and Tropical Storm ...

A weather system in the eastern Caribbean Sea continues to show signs of development on the afternoon of Monday Oct. 20, and forecasters say a tropical depression or tropical storm is likely to form ...

It’s a gorgeous Saturday morning in downtown Sarasota, with a gentle breeze and the sun glistening off calm bay waters dotted with pleasure boats — but down in the Caribbean, a storm that shares its ...

Tropical Storm Melissa was churning over the sultry waters of the southern Caribbean Sea midweek and is expected to take a slow turn northward through the weekend while intensifying into a hurricane.

A tropical storm swirling in the Caribbean is on track to explode into a major hurricane — and while its path remains unclear, forecasters warn the East Coast could be hit with torrential rain and ...

Editor's Note: Tropical Storm Melissa could become a hurricane. See the latest update for Friday, Oct. 24. Tropical Storm Melissa continues to spin in the Caribbean, with heavy rainfall and flooding ...

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 ...