Hurricane Melissa, NOAA
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Hurricane Melissa is passing to the northwest of Bermuda on Thursday night after killing at least 49 people in the Caribbean.Bermuda is under a Hurricane Warning as the Category 2 storm passes nearby.
An outside view showed cloudy blue skies off to the side of the aircraft while the crew plowed into the heart of Hurricane Melissa, which had wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean islands.
Staffing cuts and a federal government shutdown are stretching scientists’ ability to make valuable hurricane observations.
Hurricane Hunters were forced to cut short their reconnaissance mission into the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Monday morning, Oct. 27.
After weakening to a Category 1 hurricane after its passage across the rugged terrain of eastern Cuba, by Wednesday afternoon Melissa was recovering over the waters around the speckled islands of the southeastern Bahamas.
The number of storms that leap from Category 1 to Category 3 or higher within 36 hours “more than doubled” over a 20-year period.
The prime minister ordered mandatory evacuations as officials braced for tens of thousands to be displaced. Three people were killed and 13 others injured during preparations for the storm, the health minister said.
Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm of the 2025 Atlantic season, made landfall in Jamaica Tuesday as possibly its worst storm in recorded history.
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