Track of Hurricane Gilbert. Takeoff As we fly south over the Miami Beach, I look down on angry, white-capped waters. Here, 500 miles away from the eye, ...

Journalists are gathering in Cancun to await Hurricane Dean, a Category 4 storm that is nearly dead on the track that Hurricane Gilbert followed in 1988 when it plowed into Jamaica. Five days ...

Hurricane Gilbert struck Jamaica in 1988, and the damage it left in its wake might have allowed warm-adapted trees that normally grow at low altitudes to take root on the island’s mountains ...

Hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica with sustained winds of 125 mph as its 15 mile-wide eye moved […] across the length of the island leaving a swathe of destruction. It produced a 19 ft storm surge and ...

In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert, a Category 5, one of the most destructive forces on Earth, was churning in the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas. Without surprise, Gilbert" gained a lot of attention, ...