During a mission into Tropical Storm Melissa last month, it is believed that for the first time ever, video shows the deployment and transition to controlled flight inside a tropical system.

Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica.

Tropical Storm Melissa is nearly stationary in the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane.

News 6 Weather Newsletter.

While we're anticipating spending the next week and some change potentially with Melissa in the central Caribbean Sea, computer models point to one last window or two for some future tropical development if the right seedling happens to take advantage

Tropical Storm Melissa will soon come upon much more favorable conditions for development.

Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering through the Caribbean Sea and bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and the southern part of the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Tropical Storm Melissa is already showing quality signs of strengthening, but how strong could it get?

Tropical Storm Melissa is on the move, but many questions linger.

A shift in the weather pattern is on the way to Central Florida.

Tropical Storm Melissa has dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Activity is ramping up in the Caribbean.

Tropical Storm Melissa has begun dumping rain on Hispaniola as forecasters warned of a flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region this week.