Felix becomes Category 5 hurricane
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Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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Tropical Storm Felix became the second hurricane of the Atlantic season on Saturday night and is expected to gain strength as it moves through the Caribbean, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Saturday.
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Ivan strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Saturday after brushing past Jamaica and battering the island with heavy rain and strong winds.
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Hurricane Felix intensified rapidly over the warm waters of the Caribbean on Sunday as it passed to the north of the Netherlands Antilles islands and aimed for Central America or Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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Tropical Storm Henriette dumped heavy rains in this Pacific resort city, flooding streets and prompting officials to close more than 1,000 schools, while Tropical Storm Felix formed Saturday in the Caribbean.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, trashing a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, killing at least four people and threatening dangerous mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened on Sunday into a Category 4 storm, the second-highest level on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, as it passed to the north of Aruba and aimed for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The highly dangerous Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, smashing up a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast and threatening deadly mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras  - Heavy rains from Hurricane Felix soaked the hill country of Honduras on Wednesday, threatening dangerous flooding and mudslides as it approached the capital Tegucigalpa after killing four people in neighboring Nicaragua.
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Hurricane Ivan bore down on western Cuba and the home to that country&#39;s famed cigar industry with ferocious winds and monstrous waves Monday, strengthening to a Category 5 storm after hammering Grand Cayman with wind gusts up to
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Felix walloped Central America's remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder Tuesday with twin storms making landfall on the same day.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Whipping winds and walloping waves lashed western Cuba and the communist country's tobacco-growing region Monday, as Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a Category 5 storm - the most powerful - and barreled along on a new course toward the U.S. Gulf Coast...
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Hurricane Ivan grew back into a 115 mph Category 3 hurricane early Tuesday as it heads toward the southern Windward Islands.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The number of people killed when Hurricane Felix tore into the border area between Nicaragua and Honduras this week has jumped to at least 130, a Nicaraguan rescue official said on Friday.
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The hurricane, blamed for three deaths, destroys homes, rips highways apart and cuts electricity to five million people. FORT PIERCE, FLA.
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Hurricane Felix gained intensity as it tore across the warm waters of the Caribbean early Sunday, the Florida-based National Hurricane Center said.
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U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas producers were monitoring powerful Hurricane Felix as it churned through the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, but none had reported reduced offshore production or evacuated workers to onshore locations.