Melissa barrels into Jamaica as strongest hurricane on record; millions across the Caribbean brace for impact

After several false starts over the weekend, the efforts to recover Cuba’s electrical system began to make headway on October 21. Meanwhile, authorities have declared that Oscar has become a tropical storm.

As a second hurricane hits the US South, Florida residents denounce “every man for himself” style of hurricane response

As Hurricane Ian was causing devastation in the province of Pinar del Río, over 37,000 accounts on Twitter replicated the hashtag #CubaPaLaCalle (Cuba to the streets) calling for mass protests. However, less than 2% of the users who participated in this virtual mobilization were in Cuba

The fall of Ida on the 16th anniversary of hurricane Katrina, brought back memories of the devastating storm and the irreversible damage it caused to the city and its residents.

Due to warming oceans, a hurricane will move further inland after making landfall and stay strong for a longer time, thus causing more destruction, a recent paper in Nature says