Caribbean, Tropical Storm Melissa
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"Atmospheric conditions could support development through mid-November."The Atlantic hurricane season officially runs through Sunday, Nov. 30. Following Hurricane Melissa, which was the worst storm of the 2025 season,
Tropical Storm Melissa is likely to undergo rapid intensification and grow into a powerful Category 4 hurricane.
What was once a very powerful storm has now weakened into scraps. As of Friday morning, Melissa has officially become a post-tropical storm, meaning that there are no longer any active storms around the Atlantic Ocean.
The strengthening storm is most likely to approach Jamaica and/or Hispaniola late this week. In the days that follow from there, the potential path for the storm remains uncertain, and troubling.
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Tropical Storm Melissa strengthens as it takes aim at Jamaica, expected to become major hurricane
Tropical Storm Melissa strengthened Friday afternoon and is likely to become a major hurricane by the start of next week.
Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to bring catastrophic flash flooding and landslides to parts of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to become a major hurricane by Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
At 11 a.m. Saturday, the National Hurricane Center issued an advisory stating that Tropical Storm Melissa is in the Caribbean Sea, 155 miles southeast of Kingston Jamaica and 235 miles southwest of Port Au Prince Haiti. The system, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, is moving west-northwest at 1 mph.
Did you know there's a "hall of infamy" of notorious hurricanes and tropical storms? Melissa is likely to join that club. Here's why its name won't be used for a future storm.
After devastating the Caribbean islands and dumping rain on Bermuda, where is Post-Tropical Cyclone Melissa going next?