Hurricane Melissa was hitting eastern Cuba hard early Wednesday after slamming Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Maps show its forecast path.

Melissa's top winds are currently 100 mph, down from 185 mph, which were the second-strongest ever reported in an Atlantic hurricane. The storm ties for the strongest storm to hit land, along with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which hit the Florida Keys, and Hurricane Dorian in 2019, which hit the Bahamas.

Van Dam’s Cuban maps culled their information from both federal data and his team’s personal experience. The relief and terrain data come courtesy of the CIA; the cultural and urban information was provided by Havana’s Office of the City Historian ...

Hurricane Melissa brought hurricane-force gusts to Bermuda overnight and will weaken as it heads north, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Maps show its forecast path.

Melissa is expected to strengthen from a tropical storm into a major hurricane this weekend, bringing “life-threatening and catastrophic” flash flooding and landslides to the Caribbean.

DAYTONA BEACH — Cuba has evolved dramatically in the half millennium since Columbus’ voyage — from a hotly contested center of trade and bloody battles to a communist stronghold. So has its image in the eyes of mapmakers. Cuba in Old Maps, a ...

Do you know where Cuba is? Click and drag the marker to where you think Cuba is on this map of the Caribbean (it’s the crotch of the “x” that appears when you drag the marker that marks where your guess will count). When you drop it, the answer will ...